Chronic Pain
Chronic pain or recurring injuries are often caused or aggravated by bad habits in our posture, gait, the way we work or play sports, and everyday routines. Chronic pain shouldn’t be permanent. Protective movement patterns create unwanted tension that causes increased friction in your joints leading to pain with movement. Learn to release tension and lengthen your ‘stuck’ muscles & joints to be able to move the way your body was designed to move again.
These dysfunctional movement patterns also develop from a known injury, then once that injury is healed the movement patterns never go away. If these poor patterns become habitual they last and create a new injury that eventually becomes chronic if the source isn’t treated. This is why we treat the source rather than the symptoms.
We often have cases where someone mentions a secondary issue that they’ve had for 20+ years mentioning that they’ve learned to ‘live with it’, they are pleasantly surprised with what we are able to do for them.
Common causes of chronic pain
Recurring or improperly healed injury, diabetes, anxiety, and depression or other psychosomatic factors are all things that can work together to cause your neurological system to stay overprotective. Chronic pain comes in the form of back pain, joint pain, nerve pain, or headaches.
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Psychosomatic factors
Many chronic pain conditions arise from psychosomatic factors, meaning your thoughts and emotions actually create physical pain and altered biomechanics. This can happen to the point where even after improving all psychosomatic factors, your body continues to move in protective & inefficient ways. Specific exercises retrain movement patterns to realign your body to move the way it should.
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Overuse Injuries
Overuse injuries are very common and can occur in any part of the body that is used repeatedly in your everyday life - which includes walking asymmetrically. Overuse typically happens from everyday behavioral patterns that often go unrecognized until they are painful. When left untreated they also may heal improperly which leaves you more likely for reinjury.
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Disease
Certain diseases such as arthritis, fibromyalgia, multiple sclerosis, shingles, neuropathy as a result of diabetes, can lead to chronic pain. These diseases may create movement compensations that manifest as musculoskeletal pain. Pinpointing these changes and modifying habitual movements to improve efficiency help to reduce physical strain and therefore pain. Regular structured exercise also improves your circulatory system leading to better clearing out of inflammation associated with disease.
