pain & pain relief Archives - Somatic Movement Center https://somaticmovementcenter.com/category/pain-pain-relief/ Discover the secret to living pain-free. Sun, 06 Apr 2025 12:49:39 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 How Does Fascia Affect Our Pain and Mobility? https://somaticmovementcenter.com/fascia-mobility-pain/ Thu, 11 Jul 2024 14:24:51 +0000 https://somaticmovementcenter.com/?p=17657 How Does Fascia Affect Our Pain and Mobility? If you have musculoskeletal pain or mobility issues, you may have been told that your fascia is tight or that you have fascial adhesions. While this may be true, problems with fascia are most often the result of how we're moving and using our body. In [...]

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]]> If You Have Osteoarthritis, Here’s How to Give Your Cartilage the Best Chance to Heal https://somaticmovementcenter.com/osteoarthritis/ Thu, 16 May 2024 18:21:02 +0000 https://somaticmovementcenter.com/?p=13692 If You Have Osteoarthritis, Here's How to Give Your Cartilage the Best Chance to Heal Osteoarthritis is a painful, debilitating condition that affects millions of people around the world and puts a significant drain on our healthcare system. More than 32 million Americans live with osteoarthritis, and the rate of osteoarthritis worldwide has increased [...]

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]]> After a Crisis of Pain by Mia Juhn https://somaticmovementcenter.com/after-a-crisis-of-pain/ Tue, 12 Jul 2022 18:42:23 +0000 https://somaticmovementcenter.com/?p=15987 After a Crisis of Pain by Mia Juhn I thought that Sarah Warren's Clinical Somatics Level One & Two Courses would help me overcome pain. I had no idea how profoundly it would go beyond that to change my life's course. I had pain that would mount during the day, incapacitating me by afternoon [...]

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]]> How to Approach Exercise When You’re in Pain https://somaticmovementcenter.com/how-to-approach-exercise-when-youre-in-pain/ Thu, 16 Jun 2022 18:48:32 +0000 https://somaticmovementcenter.com/?p=15909 How to Approach Exercise When You're in Pain There are endless benefits to physical exercise, and you should keep up with regular physical activity while you're learning Clinical Somatics exercises—unless your workouts are making your pain worse or preventing you from making progress. In this post, I'll discuss: The benefits of working out while [...]

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]]> My Journey to Hell and Back by Greg Steidel https://somaticmovementcenter.com/journey-to-hell-and-back-greg-steidel/ Wed, 18 May 2022 14:00:39 +0000 https://somaticmovementcenter.com/?p=15836 My Journey to Hell and Back by Greg Steidel In 2003, I was in my early 20's. I weighed 150 pounds and was in phenomenal shape. I had no history of back issues and was leading a normal life. One day I was doing some landscaping at my parents' house and decided to go [...]

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]]> Learning to Relax After Four Decades of Chronic Tension by Lena Pollack https://somaticmovementcenter.com/learning-to-relax-after-four-decades-of-chronic-tension-by-lena-pollack/ Thu, 17 Mar 2022 14:05:22 +0000 https://somaticmovementcenter.com/?p=15685 Learning to Relax After Four Decades of Chronic Tension by Lena Pollack Every time I get a tensed muscle to relax, it’s like a little miracle. It leaves me awestruck, much like being chosen by a shelter cat, or finding a beautiful field that’s completely empty. Maybe it isn’t anything objectively earth shattering but getting [...]

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]]> How To Retrain Your Brain’s Pain Processing System https://somaticmovementcenter.com/neuroplasticity-chronic-pain/ Thu, 04 Nov 2021 14:01:20 +0000 https://somaticmovementcenter.com/?p=15399 How To Retrain Your Brain's Pain Processing System I recently read The Brain's Way of Healing by Dr. Norman Doidge and learned about a fascinating way to retrain how chronic pain is processed in the brain. The approach, developed by pain specialist Dr. Michael Moskowitz, is used with people who have been in pain [...]

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]]> Understanding the Pelvic Floor Muscles and Pelvic Pain https://somaticmovementcenter.com/pelvic-floor-muscles-pelvic-pain/ Tue, 06 Jul 2021 14:05:32 +0000 https://somaticmovementcenter.com/?p=15219 Understanding the Pelvic Floor Muscles and Pelvic Pain What is the pelvic floor? The pelvic floor is a large sheet of skeletal muscle that forms the base of the abdomen. It is made up of the levator ani (subdivided into the puborectalis, pubococcygeus, and iliococcygeus muscles) and the coccygeus muscles, and associated connective tissue. [...]

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]]> Recovering From 19 Years of Chronic Pain by Chris Werts https://somaticmovementcenter.com/recovering-from-19-years-of-chronic-pain-by-chris-werts/ Tue, 01 Jun 2021 12:25:07 +0000 https://somaticmovementcenter.com/?p=15148 Recovering From 19 Years of Chronic Pain by Chris Werts I’ve been an athlete all of my life, not at the elite level but perhaps some would say right below that. Growing up, very little emphasis was put on strengthening modalities, and all kids are invincible as you know. Baseball was my jam, but [...]

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]]> How Muscular Learning Leads to Pain and Degeneration https://somaticmovementcenter.com/muscular-learning/ Mon, 09 Nov 2020 18:28:45 +0000 http://www.somaticmovementcenter.com/?p=6627 How Muscular Learning Leads to Pain and Degeneration Chronic pain is invisible, and can be all too easily ignored by people who haven’t experienced it. But if you suffer from chronic pain, you understand the stress, helplessness, depression, and fatigue that accompany it. You might deal with financial hardship as a result of missed [...]

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]]> The Benefits of Exploring Micromovements https://somaticmovementcenter.com/micromovements/ Mon, 05 Oct 2020 19:24:53 +0000 https://somaticmovementcenter.com/?p=14622 The Benefits of Exploring Micromovements If you practice Clinical Somatics exercises, you know how slow and gentle they are. But if you're in a lot of pain to start with, your nervous system is highly sensitized, or you're dealing with joint inflammation or a structural issue, even the slow, gentle exercises might exacerbate your pain. [...]

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]]> How to Take Care of Your Knees for the Long Haul https://somaticmovementcenter.com/knee-pain/ Wed, 05 Feb 2020 18:14:36 +0000 https://somaticmovementcenter.com/?p=13538 How to Take Care of Your Knees for the Long Haul Knee pain is one of the most common types of chronic pain that people experience, and it's no wonder why—our knees support the weight of our body throughout our entire lives! And while the U.S. population is getting older and more overweight, rates [...]

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]]> Figuring out the Cause of Your Chronic Neck Pain https://somaticmovementcenter.com/neck-pain/ Wed, 11 Dec 2019 15:25:40 +0000 https://somaticmovementcenter.com/?p=13372 Figuring out the Cause of Your Chronic Neck Pain Why is neck pain such a pain in the neck to get rid of? First, the muscles in your neck adapt to any postural imbalances you have in the core of your body. If your lumbar or thoracic spine is out of alignment in any [...]

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]]> Why Whiplash Turns into Chronic Pain https://somaticmovementcenter.com/whiplash/ Thu, 14 Nov 2019 15:05:29 +0000 https://somaticmovementcenter.com/?p=13228 Why Whiplash Turns into Chronic Pain Whiplash is one of the most common acute injuries that results in chronic pain. Since many cases go unreported, we don't know exactly how often whiplash occurs. Some sources estimate that up to 3 million people suffer from whiplash in the U.S. every year. Studies show that at [...]

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]]> How to Even out the Imbalances in Your Body https://somaticmovementcenter.com/imbalances-body/ Wed, 30 Oct 2019 14:24:40 +0000 https://somaticmovementcenter.com/?p=13167 How to Even out the Imbalances in Your Body Scroll down to watch this video on Youtube We all have imbalances in the patterns of muscle tension between our right and left sides; that's because of how we use the dominant side of our body differently than our non-dominant side. These imbalanced muscular patterns [...]

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]]> 5 Ways Clinical Somatics Will Change the World https://somaticmovementcenter.com/5-ways-clinical-somatics-will-change-the-world/ Fri, 04 Oct 2019 17:05:15 +0000 https://somaticmovementcenter.com/?p=13034 5 Ways Clinical Somatics Will Change the World If you've gotten out of pain with Clinical Somatics, you know how life-changing the exercises are. To not endure pain on a daily basis frees you from stress and suffering—like loss of sleep, mood disorders, and physical degeneration related to the pain. You can also be [...]

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]]> The Placebo Effect on Pain Perception and Healing https://somaticmovementcenter.com/placebo-analgesia-pain/ Tue, 09 Jul 2019 19:00:26 +0000 https://somaticmovementcenter.com/?p=12187 The Placebo Effect on Pain Perception and Healing The placebo effect is a general term that describes the physiological effects of believing that we're going to feel better or heal from a condition. The placebo effect has long been discounted in Western medicine—when placebos work, we're just imagining that we're getting better, we're not actually [...]

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]]> Unlocking Your Body: Your Personal Process of Releasing Tension and Pain https://somaticmovementcenter.com/unlocking-your-body/ Mon, 24 Jun 2019 19:26:46 +0000 https://somaticmovementcenter.com/?p=12139 Unlocking Your Body: Your Personal Process of Releasing Tension and Pain Many people ask me how long it will take them to release their chronic tightness or get out of pain. I wish I could answer this question, but the truth is that everyone's patterns of muscular tension and pain are so unique that [...]

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]]> Thoracic Outlet Syndrome: Anatomy, Causes, and Treatment with Clinical Somatics https://somaticmovementcenter.com/thoracic-outlet-syndrome/ Wed, 05 Jun 2019 14:37:16 +0000 https://somaticmovementcenter.com/?p=12053 Thoracic Outlet Syndrome: Anatomy, Causes, and Treatment with Clinical Somatics Thoracic outlet syndrome might sound a little scary, but most cases are functional—meaning they can be prevented and often eliminated completely. When tight muscles or poor posture compress the thoracic outlet, you may experience symptoms such as pain and numbness in your shoulder, arm, [...]

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]]> The Functional Cause of Sciatica https://somaticmovementcenter.com/sciatica-cause/ Tue, 28 May 2019 15:37:03 +0000 http://www.somaticmovementcenter.com/?p=6784 The Functional Cause of Sciatica Sciatica often occurs along with back pain, which 80% of Americans will experience at some point in their lives. By the time your doctor diagnoses you with sciatica, the cause may appear to be structural—most commonly, a herniated disc pressing on the root of the sciatic nerve. However, as [...]

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