Chronic pain is often caused by dysfunctional movement patterns. Our brains have the ability to learn how to move better, fixing this patterns and moving pain free. Chronic pain relief expert Chad Estes explains why this is and how breaking these habits bring relief.
Dysfunctional motor patterns in the brain can be fixed – if you want to think of it that way. However, if you look at it as something that needs to be “fixed”, you are assuming that that something is broken. I prefer to look at it from a learning perspective.
We all have the ability to LEARN to do better – in everything that we do.
In terms of movement, there are two ways in the brain can quickly be re-patterned with more effective movement patterns. I can work with a person one-on-one – this is called “Functional Integration” or “Functional Synthesis”. The second method, which works wonderfully in larger groups, works through participation in various verbally directed movement lessons.
We don’t tell people that there is a “right’ or “wrong” way to accomplish something. We simply provide movement experiences for the nervous system in order to give it more complete information so that better choices can be made when organizing action/ movement.
When more effective solutions are available, better choices are made when organizing movement. When that happens, the effects of dysfunctional movement, such as chronic pain in your back and or neck, simply begin to fade away.
Learn more in this brief video below from Chad’s talk to the American Society for Pain Management Nursing…