During the Barefoot Structural Integration 12-Series, I’ll guide you through the neuroscience of pain as we work together to ‘heel’ your body. By balancing your alignment and improving movement awareness, we’ll reduce strain and ease the compensations your nervous system has built for protection.
Lets work retrain your pain!
Explaining pain has always been difficult, even for doctors. To help me help you “heel” on a level deeper than I’ve been able to help with before, I recently attended a 2-day lecture presented by a Pain Neuroscience Researcher, Lorimer Moseley AO. The research and the science and resources that this experience armed me with (and I guess also footed me with!) can really help us together through the process of understanding YOUR PAIN during our sessions at Heeling Sole.
This post is part 1 of 4 covering the all the notes I feverishly took in my notebook during this Pain Science in Practice class: I’ll be embedding these ideas into each session moving forward, adding another dimension to how we can “heel” your pain together!
What is the role of pain?
Pain focuses our attention on a body part that needs protecting.
Pain gives your body space to heal.
Pain is a protective feeling that is essential for our survival.
Pain is an individual experience and is ALWAYS real.
Pain provides us with a protective buffer.
Pain usually protects us from injury. It reminds us not to do too much too soon. Most of the time, pain acts as a safeguard to keep our body tissues safe. Pain is a normal response to potential danger and is always real.
Let’s team up to create lasting relief and restore natural movement!
The sessions that Jeni Spring provides here at Heeling Sole are either Barefoot Structural Integration or Myofascial Barefoot Massage sessions set on the massage table or on a floor mat that incorporate Stretch Therapy. You’ll need to go through the Structural Integration work to get to the Myofascial Barefoot Massage and Stretch Therapy work – but the journey will change your body and change your life! My goal is to give you a sense of effortlessness in your movements, better awareness of how you feel inside your body, to rehab your strains and retrain your pain into something self-manageable.
It’ll be hard work, but worth the effort.
