For everyone who thinks Rolfing, Deep Tissue Massage and otherwise painful bodywork is the way to alleviate that pain, please read below. I encourage further research on the subject.
The following is an excerpt from Job’s Body by Deane Juhan.
“The very stress and anxieties which tend to produce muscular tension are the same influences which lower the thresholds and exaggerate the responses to additional pain or discomfort. Thus anything we do to cause local discomfort, or often even the hint of possible discomfort, reflexively tightens the contractions we are seeking to release.
“Patience, sensitivity, and careful timing will reward the bodyworker far more than mere force, no matter what structural or functional end he wished to achieve. The client’s patterns of reflex contractions cannot be bullied into submission. In fact, the very act of bullying can only ignite more stretch and withdrawal reflexes.”
(2003). In D. Juhan, Job's Body (p. 208). Barrytown, NY: Barrytown/Station Hill Press, Inc.
And as always I would love to help you move better and learn how to swing a kettlebell.
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Sunday, February 21, 2010
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