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How Muscular Learning Leads to Pain and Degeneration

Sarah Warren — Mon, 09 Nov 2020 18:28:45 +0000

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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How to Get Your Inactive Muscles to Wake Up and Fire

Sarah Warren — Wed, 27 May 2020 13:56:01 +0000

How to Get Your Inactive Muscles to Wake Up and Fire People often ask me how to strengthen or “activate” weak or inactive muscles. Well, there's a difference between weak and inactive, and it's important to understand this difference. Do you feel like you can't get a certain muscle group to “fire” no matter [...]

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Chronic Tension in Facial Muscles Can Keep You Stuck in Stress and Emotions

Sarah Warren — Thu, 02 Apr 2020 14:15:15 +0000

Chronic Tension in Facial Muscles Can Keep You Stuck in Stress and EmotionsIf you've ever watched the TV show Lie To Me, you know that people automatically express their emotions through their facial expressions, whether they want to or not. Our nervous system is hardwired to contract our mimetic muscles (facial muscles) in certain patterns [...]

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How to Even out the Imbalances in Your Body

Sarah Warren — Wed, 30 Oct 2019 14:24:40 +0000

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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Unlocking Your Body: Your Personal Process of Releasing Tension and Pain

Sarah Warren — Mon, 24 Jun 2019 19:26:46 +0000

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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What is the Gamma Loop?

Sarah Warren — Mon, 29 Apr 2019 18:06:04 +0000

You can listen to Sarah's podcast on this topic here: What is the gamma loop? The gamma loop (also referred to as the alpha-gamma loop) is a feedback loop in our nervous system that regulates the level of tension in our muscles. The way the gamma loop works can get a little confusing, [...]

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Video: Your Pain and Injuries are Caused by the Way You’re Using Your Body

Sarah Warren — Wed, 05 Jul 2017 18:19:54 +0000

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Sensorimotor Amnesia and Muscle Memory

Sarah Warren — Sat, 16 Jan 2016 16:32:52 +0000

You can listen to Sarah's podcast on this topic here: Sensorimotor Amnesia and Muscle Memory Most people are familiar with the concept of muscle memory. When we repeat a movement like swinging a golf club over and over, the neurons involved in controlling that movement develop increasingly stronger connections. Existing synapses begin to fire more [...]

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