Injuries come and go, or so it seems. After suffering an injury, you might choose to support your healing plan with one of the following; physical therapy, chiropractic, massage therapy, or other. In time, at your own speed, you return to your ‘functionally aware’ self again. Until one day the pain or dysfunction returns. The cause of re-injury is often obvious, as in re-igniting an old football injury from lifting weights or from something as simple as looking over your shoulder while backing up in your car. In other instances, the cause of the painful re-emergence is a mystery. It is possible that in the healing period following the initial injury the opportunity to integrate and feel a returned ease and fluidity in movement was not realized. Without this opportunity your body is functioning as if a band member is missing, something is compromised, perhaps unknowingly.
This slightly ‘off ‘ rhythm can snowball into chronic problems and potentially translate into ill health. If left unattended long enough dis-ease is the result.
Long-term exposure to ‘bad’ stress potentially carries the same weight and impact as unresolved injury.
The Trager Approach® is one possible answer for renewing the missing piece in movement re-education following trauma and/or the lightening of the accumulated effects of daily stresses. The Trager Approach® frees the body of tension by way of gentle and effortless movement. The receiver can experience new ‘felt’ possibilities of movement that may otherwise be blocked by contracted musculature, and/or pain. This is achieved in the receiving of passive movement and reinforced with the practice of active movement. The combination of a feeling experience that is freer, looser and more fluid with the empowering principle of recalling a positive sensory experience, confirms to the receiver of a renewed awareness and potential in moving with ease. This could be described as a process of practicing effortless movement until it becomes habit and literally unconscious.
To learn more about the Trager Approach® log onto www.@trager-us.org
Roger Hughes, LMT
Certified Trager Practitioner
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