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Chronic Pain
Chronic Pain
One Solution to chronic pain involves the creative development of competing and pleasure-inducing neurological pathways….especially in situations where there is absence of corroborating or tangible evidence for determining a structurally definitive or absolute known cause for the persistence of pain.
The methods which harness neurological change phenomena - of what scientists have now come to know as “‘Neuroplasticity” - can more effectively work to augment these restorative, enriching, and life-affirming recovery conditions….
Alliant physical therapy & integral medicine, and especially The Feldenkrais Method® creates new conditions which substantially decrease the bodily threat value of withdrawal, disengagement, seizing-up, and aversion – and especially in situations of pain with movement…by increasing the functional relevance and sensory reconstructive processes for curtailing and re-engaging a more accurate and sustainable perception of the body’s underlying and purposeful organization - as a whole.
In situations involving widespread, persistent, or chronic pain, It’s not just a matter of getting a repeat adjustment, a soft tissue release, sustained opioid use, vague mindfulness practices, or merely ‘going through the motions’ in a usual exercise gym. It requires widespread, creative, and systematic change - more centrally – reconstructively as a process – and committedly from the inside-out.
VIDEO: Understanding Pain in less than five minutes.
ARTICLE: Pain as an Synthesis of Signaling & Attention
…..One thing we tend to believe about pain, but is wrong, is that it always stems from a single, fixable source. Another is that pain is communicated from that source to our brains by “pain nerves.” That’s so wrong it’s called “the naïve view” by neuroscientists. In truth, pain is in our brain…
