Welcome to Somatics on the Web, needed help from an unexpected source: a breakthrough discipline in the field of health care

This site provides information and resources for people seeking definitive relief from lingering pain, injuries and stress-related disorders; and for professionals locating new information in the health field.

READ: Clinical Somatic Education: A New Discipline in the Field of Health Care
If you've been getting treatment for a long time and aren't getting better, aren't getting better fast enough, or if your condition has evaded a decisive diagnosis, you may worry that you'll have to live that way for the rest of your life. If you've been slowed down by pain and stiffness, you may have forgotten what it feels like to feel good and move well and now hope only to reduce or manage your pain.

This site offers more than support or explanations of disorders or resources for pain management: it offers a way to end pain definitively and to recover the way of life you prefer in a reasonably short period of time and at your preferred standard of movement health (or better).

Injuries and Pain Reflexes | to articles |

Injuries trigger postural reflexes that rob us of control of our own muscles and cause pain and stiffness; we tighten up; we lose the ability to relax reflexively tight muscles and to move freely in certain ways. Without retraining, people often stay that way indefinitely:  "He was never the same, after that." Many people have had this experience.

What's been lacking in most therapeutic approaches (<== click for comparisons) is the ability to deal directly with these reflexes and to enable people to keep themselves independently well.

The ability to deal with these reflexes is the breakthrough offered here.

A Promise | to conditions helped |

Many people who have unsuccessfully undergone physical therapy, chiropractic, acupuncture, massage therapy and various forms of bodywork, osteopathy, neurosurgery, et al., have found clinical somatic education to be a successful last resort with success rates in excess of 90%.

Even if you've had a problem for a long time, time is not a factor. You can have your life back -- in recreation and athletics, at work, at home and in the bedroom -- in short, in any situation where you need free and easy movement to exercise, lift and carry a heavy box, get into a car or move gracefully from position to position.

How it Happens | more description | see video |

The key to recovery is your recapturing control of muscles trapped by reflexes triggered by injury or nervous tension; you can relax and move, again. Pain fades out, starting immmediately. You come back to the way you were -- or (more often) finish better than you were, before -- and you can keep yourself well without outside help.

The proof of the pudding is in ...

(click to hear:) CLINICAL SOMATIC EDUCATION

"Somatic" means, "pertaining to the body experienced and controlled from within."

Do not believe in anything simply because you have heard it,

nor in traditions because they are old and have been handed down from generation to generation and in many locations,

nor in rumor because it has been spoken by many,

nor in writings by sages because sages wrote them,

nor in ones own fancies, thinking that it is such an extraordinary thought, it must have been inspired by a god or higher power,

nor in inferences drawn from some haphazard assumption made by us,

nor in what seems to be of necessity by analogy,

nor in anything merely because it is based on the authority of our teachers, masters, and elders.

However, after thorough investigation, observation, analysis and reflection, when you find that anything agrees with reason and your experience, and is conducive to the good and benefit of one and all, and of the world at large; accept only that as true, and shape your life in accordance with it; and live up to it. ~~ Gautama Buddha

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