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Positional relief can sometimes be extremely useful.
Essentially you’re just putting your body in a position that’s advantageous for gravity, joint load, disc pressure, and muscle tension.
“The present single-blind randomized clinical trial was used to measure the effect of DN on pain intensity and functional disability in subjects with discogenic radiating LBP. The findings of the study confirm the hypothesis stating that DN improves pain and disability parameters in subjects treated with standard conservative physical therapy.”
In the biopsychosocial approach to health, the social part unfortunately gets over looked.
This becomes a problem for our health.
We need to focus on cultivating community as much as we do working out, eating right, and sleeping well.
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Community is a powerful source of life satisfaction and life expectancy.
It's where we know each other, help each other, and find purpose in contributing to each other's lives.
-Dr. Vivek Murthy
In this video (click here), Dr. Yoav does a wonderful job of drawing attention to the contradicting philosophies in fitness and health.
No pain no gain? If it hurts don't do it? Listen to your body????
It's important to understand pain.
There have been incredible advancements in understanding pain and the psychological/brain side of it.
However, some practitioners have thrown out the baby with the bathwater. They say it’s all in your head. Or you just need to exercise, regardless of what that exercise is.This can lead to more confusion for patients.
But it’s very important to understand that often times there’s a mechanical aspect to pain.
In the video linked above, Dr. Yoav does a great job of explaining the confusion regarding mechanical pain.
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There are two questions you should ask when you have pain:
1) Where?
2) Why?
If the muscles in your leg (where) are sore from a workout (why), that's good.
If you have radiating pain down your leg (where), after doing 4 hours of gardening (why), it's not good.
It's important to understand these concepts and complexities. Because it's the first step towards getting better.
If you need help figuring this out, give us a call or shoot us a text.
Pain is a Chinese finger trap.
It is a dynamic continuum of compression and relaxation, tension and loosening, struggle and relief, imprisonment and freedom.
If you try to muscle through it, it just gets more restricting.
If you’re too scared, give up and don't do anything, it just stays.
It's a constantly adapting trap.
You have to be able to feel it before you can heal it.
It's a balance of gently pushing and then letting go.
And only the person in it can know what the right balance is to escaping the hold.
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