Helping You Achieve a Pain Free Life & Living

Chronic musculoskeletal and joint pain is annoying, frustrating, and debilitating. When you're in pain it's natural to want it to go away and stop immediately. That's instincitive human nature.

Day in and out clients come to Pain Free Posture MN looking for a natural solution without medication, manipulation or more surgery for their pain.

The good news is that they are ready to take a risk and try a new paradigm of healthcare. The bad news however, is that I also find they have lots of reasons and explainations for their pain.

Explaining our pain history is a coping techinque we learn growing up in a culture that likes to assess blame.

How many times have you heard yourself say "It’s your (insert sport, job, genetics here) causing the pain, so you better stop!”

Now add your family, doctor, PT, and other clatter to the collection of voices telling you what to do, and you get the idea.

By the time clients arrive at my studio most have given up on the activities they love because of chronic pain. Not only are they in physcial pain, but now they can't even do the things that they love and give joy.

When I ask why they don't do what they love to do anymore,the response usually goes something like this:

"When I power walk (run, do the elliptical, etc), my hip (you can inset any joint pain here) hurts. I stopped power walking because it hurts my hip." Or, "running hurts my knee. I don't run any more because it causes too much knee pain."

As a Certified Posture Alignment Specialist, I always find that fascinating.  Okay, your hip hurts.  We'll agree on that.  But then I'll ask have "you ever stopped to wonder what the pain is telling you?"  Hmmmm.... Here's the conversation.

"If power walking is causing your hip (or insert any other pain here) pain, then why doesn't the other hip hurt too?  Don't they both do the same amount of power walking?  How come only one hip hurts?    Why doesen't the other one hurt just as much?"

Hmmmm....

Most of my clients have spent thousands of dollars, and countless hours visitng doctors and orthopedic specialists, going to and from physical therapy, massage, chriopractic, pilates/yoga, or accupuncture looking for symptomatic pain relief. It's exhausting!

Sometimes the pain abates for a few months, or only for a few days or hours. Manipulations, adjustments, ice, heat, needles and exercises have not bought lasting chronic pain relief. Eventually the pain rears it's ugly head again, often at the oddest and most unexpected times.

Why?

What if the pain has nothing to do with your workout program, sports you play, your job, chair, desk, shoes, orthotics, or family genetics?

Maybe, the pain is a signal that is begging us to ask the fundamental question "Why do I hurt"?

Tomorrow we will explore part two of Pain is a Signal .

Do you have questions or want to schedule your own Posture Alginment Therapy appointment?  Please reach out.  That's what we're here for!