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Myofascial Release Therapy (MFR) for treating compression and pain
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Thanks for the update on how you're doing. Your words about trusting your body to accommodate an injury, and looking for a work around and new kind of normal, are powerful and so very true. You are a lesson in perseverance 30 years later. Good for you!!
During my time at the Mayo Pain Rehab Center I learned many lessons that your referring to, one being movement and functionality. Dr. Sletten says, "motion is lotion". It's difficult to move, or understand how to move when you have chronic pain and hurt. One concept PRC teaches about chronic pain is:
"Hurt does not equal harm"
You refer to it as freezing - fear of more pain, which leads to more deconditioning. Our brains are capable of relearning and retraining our bodies. That is where our power lies.
Life is sure about learning as we go, isn't it? So glad your back is better.
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Thank you for the kind words. One thing that helped me was not ignoring pain if I felt it, but also not "freezing up" at the first twinge or back spasm. Instead, I did modified yoga breathing and waited cautiously to see if got worse. And many times it did not which surprised me a lot. So I slowly started to at least not making pain worse by anticipation or fear of more. That was one point Dr. Sarno stressed in his books and since I was facing back surgery if anyway if things didn't improve, I decided to try Sarno's recommendations. Thankfully, they worked.