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GENERAL Age Management Athletic Training Back Pain Breathing Carpal Tunnel Syndrome Equine Concerns Ergonomics Fibromyalgia Fitness and Health Hamstrings, Tight Headaches Health Care Crisis, the HIV/AIDS, exercise benefits Knee Problems Injuries Pain Relief

Pilates Psoas Muscles Sciatica Shingles Somatic Education Stress Management Stretching Success Stories Therapeutic Exercises TMJ Syndrome / TMD Traction Unequal Leg Length Weight Training Whiplash Injuries Workplace Injuries

High strung or unstrung? The snapping of tendon the popping of joint the hitch in your git-along all point to a point: You're a bit too high-strung and it shows when you move: your joints, muscles and tendons are out of their groove. If you get you some slack, and you free you to move your joints, muscles and tendons can get back in their groove. Get a grip and let go. I'll show you the way and you'll surely feel better by the end of the day.

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GENERAL	An Entirely New Class of Therapeutic Exercises What Happens in a Hanna Somatics Session? Are You Humpty Dumpty?" the universal human condition | (PDF) "Correct Diagnosis and Treatment" - Realistic Expectations "Somatic Education is Easy to Understand" (PDF) "Using Your Brain to End Pain" - Presentation, "Head-to-Toe 9" Conference for Educators, 2005 (audio - MP3 format)
Age Management	Age Management, Successful Aging, Healthy Aging | (PDF) "How Injuries Accelerate Aging"
Athletic Training	"Somatic Education as a Way to End Pain, Become More Agile and Reduce Accidental Injuries" "Secrets of Strong Legs and Agility" (PDF) Words on Fitness Walking | (PDF)
Back Pain	New Answers to Common Questions about Back Injuries and Back Pain "How to Self-Relieve Low Back Pain" "A New Way to Relieve Chronic Back Pain" "Understanding Typical Terms Applied to Back Pain" Medication Alternatives for Back Pain (guest contribution)
Breathing	Better Breathing
Carpal Tunnel Syndrome	see Workplace Injuries, below (click link at left)
Equestrian Concerns	"Are You Making Your Horse Lame?" Completing Recovery from an Injury
Ergonomics	"Addressing the Human Factor in Ergonomic Solutions"
Fibromyalgia	"Fibromyalgia: One Class Participant's Success Story" a letter from a participant, diagnosed with fibromyalgia, in a Hanna Somatic Education class
Fitness and Health	"The Movement Movement" Movement is life. How movement awakens the body's self-correcting health mechanisms. A pep-talk for intelligent people who only need a reason and some encouragement.
Hamstrings, Tight injuries knee problems	"How Tight Hamstrings Cause Knee Damage -- and a better way to free them"
Headaches	"Headache Relief by New Somatic Techniques"
Health-Care Crisis, the	"Care, Cure, and Self Sufficiency" the one and only answer for the "health-care crisis"
HIV/AIDS, unexpected benefits	"A Somatic Approach to Living with HIV/AIDS" How Destination Discovery, a Wellness Vacation® company program, incorporated Hanna Somatic Education and yoga to improve the wellness levels of HIV+ people.
Injuries	"Completing your Recovery from an Injury" about healing the pain of long-term, post-injury or post-surgical conditions -- new information "How Soon to Work with an Injury" knowing the difference between pain and injury; when to start somatic education to bring relief
Knee Problems	See hamstrings, tight.
Pain Relief	"Definitive Pain Relief from Somatic Education" "Understanding Pain Management" "What Happens When You Ignore Pain" (PDF) "Might You Be Strengthening Your Pain?" (PDF) "Sensory-Motor Amnesia: One Explanation for Idiopathic Pain" Pain Medication - A Mixed Blessing (PDF)
Pilates	"The Differences in Pilates’ and Alexander’s Approaches to Self- Improvement - Part I"
Psoas Muscles	The Psoas Muscles - Understanding Them, Freeing Them, Integrating Them (PDF) The Well-Tempered Psoas -- The Inner Psoas -- Freeing Tight Psoas Muscles | PDF Information and Help Resources for Healing Psoas Muscle Function "Questions and Answers about Psoas Muscle Function and Dysfunction" "The Psoas Muscles and Abdominal Exercises for Back Pain"
Sciatica	" How to End Your Own Sciatica Pain in 1 - 3 Weeks" | PDF
Shingles	"Help for Shingles" (PDF)
Somatic Education	"New Paradigm Healing: Somatic Education" "Why I Like the Somatic Exercises"
Stress Management	"Stress Relief" "An Expanded View of the Three Reflexes of Stress"
Stretching	"Power Stretching" (way beyond "active isolated stretching)
Success Stories	Disc Trouble Broken Back (fractured vertebrae) from a young purchaser of The Guidebook of Somatic Transformational Exercises
Traction Therapy	"The Case Against Traction as a Clinical Modality" | PDF preliminary clinical study on the uses of traction (PDF)
TMJ Syndrome / TMD	"Treatments for TMJ Syndrome" Common Causes of TMJ Syndrome/Bruxism TMJ Syndrome TMD/Bruxism Symptoms A New TMJ Therapeutic Approach
Unequal Leg Length	"Unequal Leg Length"
Weight Training	"About Weight Training"
Whiplash Injuries	"Recovery from Whiplash Injuries"
Workplace Injuries	"Avoiding Carpal Tunnel Syndrome and Other 'terminal' Diseases" "Understanding and Healing Lifting Injuries" (PDF)

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