Are foam rollers really all that useful? Many of my readers have asked me about foam rollers. What do I think about them? Can they really eliminate muscle pain that develops over time? If you’re looking for more than temporary relief – no, they don’t. In fact, I would say that they might even invoke [...]
Posts Tagged ‘pandiculation’
Foam Rollers: Do They Really Help Sore Hips, Glutes and Muscle Pain?
Posted in Iliotibial Band Syndrome, Pandiculation, Sensory Motor Amnesia, sports/fitness training, tagged pandiculation, Sensory Motor Amnesia, sports training on March 16, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
Is Yoga Dangerous?
Posted in Back pain, Hanna Somatic Education, Movement, Stretching, yoga, tagged back pain, Hanna Somatic Education, movement, pandiculation on January 6, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
Today’s New York Times article about “How Yoga Can Wreck Your Body,” by William J. Broad. Broads covers yoga injuries and how yoga teachers themselves suffer from muscle and joint pain. I’ve worked with quite a few yoga students and teachers after they “over did it” in class. Yoga can be a very “somatic” discipline [...]
The Basics Concepts of Hanna Somatics…Simplified
Posted in Hanna Somatic Education, Movement, Muscle pain conditions, Pandiculation, Somatic Exercises, tagged movement, pandiculation, Sensory Motor Amnesia, somatic stress reflexes on October 9, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
I had an eager group of people at Pilates for Sport in Furlong, PA last weekend. Participants came from Baltimore, Delaware, New Jersey to attend the workshops on How to Relieve Back and Hip Pain, and Relieving Painful Necks and Shoulders. One participant drove 3 hours from Delaware. She said she’d spent years looking for [...]
Arm, Hand and Wrist Video Tutorial
Posted in Hanna Somatic Education, Muscle pain conditions, Pandiculation, Somatic Exercises, tagged arm pain, pain relief, pandiculation, Somatic Exercises on September 19, 2011 | 15 Comments »
In my last post I shared an email from a client who had severe arm, hand and wrist pain. Here’s a video with the techniques I taught her. Rather than stretching those muscles or digging in to attempt to relax them with trigger point therapy or passive release, try this method and see how it [...]
Video Tips on Eliminating Foot Pain, Plantar fasciitis and Heel Pain
Posted in Foot pain, Hanna Somatic Education, Muscle pain conditions, Plantarfascitis, walking, tagged altered gait, Hanna Somatic Education, pain relief, pandiculation, Plantarfascitis, stretching, walking on August 17, 2011 | 9 Comments »
Plantar fasciitis begins in the center of your body and works its way out to the perpiphery. In my last post I described the Clinical Somatic approach to plantar fasciitis. It’s not simply a condition of the feet! Let’s recap the steps to eliminating plantar fasciitis (and other general pain in your feet): Determine whether [...]
Eliminate Heel Pain and Plantar fasciitis with Somatic Exercises
Posted in Back pain, Foot pain, Hanna Somatic Education, Movement, Plantarfascitis, tagged back pain, Hanna Somatic Education, hip pain, movement, pain relief, pandiculation, Plantarfascitis on August 9, 2011 | 1 Comment »
Plantar fasciitis and heel pain affects approximately 2 million people a year in the United States. People stretch, ice, roll the muscles of the lower leg, get acupuncture, and wear night splints, and orthotics. Here’s an example of the current view on plantar fasciitis, pain in the connective tissue of the bottom of the foot [...]
How To Stretch without Straining
Posted in Foot pain, Hanna Somatic Education, Pandiculation, Sensory Motor Amnesia, sports/fitness training, Stretching, tagged Hanna Somatic Education, pain relief, pandiculation, stretching on April 6, 2011 | 8 Comments »
Traditional stretching routines involve forceful pulling or pushing of muscles. Traditional stretching routines focus on individual muscles rather than on any pattern or group of muscles. This approach to readying muscles for action can cause muscles to become tighter than they were when you started. What works better than traditional, passive stretching? Pandiculation. A pandiculation [...]
How to Do A Somatics “Warm Up”
Posted in Hanna Somatic Education, Movement, Muscle pain conditions, sports/fitness training, tagged Hanna Somatic Education, movement, pain relief, pandiculation, stretching on March 29, 2011 | 1 Comment »
Programming your brain is more important than strength training and aerobics. Central nervous system programming must never be neglected at all stages of training. -Mel Siff, author of Facts and Fallacies of Fitness I’ve been asked how athletes might “warm up” and “cool down” with Hanna Somatics. Hanna Somatics is exactly what Mel Siff refers [...]
Lengthening Hamstrings for Knee Pain Relief
Posted in Knee pain, Pandiculation, walking, tagged hamstrings, knee pain, pandiculation on March 14, 2011 | 6 Comments »
“I’ve been going to physical therapy for a month and my knee still won’t straighten.” This is what Sam said when he came to my “Releasing Legs and Hip Joints” workshop this weekend. He’d had back pain and chronic left knee pain for years, and his doctors told him that a full knee replacement was [...]
Labral Tears – Surgery or Not?
Posted in Hanna Somatic Education, Hip pain, Pandiculation, Somatic Exercises, tagged Hanna Somatic Education, hip pain, pandiculation, Somatic Exercises on February 15, 2011 | 18 Comments »
In my last post I wrote about my perspective as a Hanna Somatic Educator regarding chronic hip pain and what is counterproductive, and what works. Strengthening painful hip muscles can cause further pain or injury. Learning to relax the muscles and the pattern of contraction the muscles are stuck in can provide long lasting pain [...]
