Archive for February, 2010

The CDSR Pain Game: Having Fun With Pain Science

Friday, February 26th, 2010

This is something I've played with the past several years. It is written from the "yoga" world of my experience using the latest science to help teachers and students alike grasp the magnificance of modern pain science.

Take a look and let me know what you think. Try it with your staff or a group of patients in a workshop…they love it and can't stop making comparisons and noting experiences to point toward in their life or with their clients.


 

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Fancy footwear with funny “souls” a spiritual issue?

Monday, February 8th, 2010

 

I had this question posed on my FB wall from a professional colleague.

Thought I would use it as an interesting insight into how we might change our reference point with clients….

What do you think?


Matt, what do you think about the roller soled shoes? They work the foot in a triplanar fashion and the ground reaction force moves up the kinetic chain improving posture and circulation. A therapist recommended I get them. I waited and just go a mimic from sketcher's called shape ups. They currently appear to be worthy of recommending them to some of my patients. I need to study them a little more. The only down fall I can foresee is that they disconnect the body from true gravitational forces. It is important that we experience the bones in our feet touch true ground without interference of a rubber shoe. I suspect that is one reason you have all patients take off their shoes and ambulate.

 

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Matthew Taylor

Matthew Taylor 

The DSR Method always asks about 10 more layers of why vs stopping at symptomatic Rx such as these shoes.

Why isn't the person dealing well with ground reaction forces?
Why is the foot collapsed w/ subsequent postural imbalances?
Why is the pelvis tight, asymmetrical and the person not breathing well?
Why isn't the person aware of all this?
Why can't they breathe if even they are made aware?
Why can't they breathe even if much of the musculoskeletal restriction is addressed?
Why is it important psychologically and spiritually how our base of support interfaces with the earth beyond mere, simple mechanics?
Why do we treat ourselves and others like separated, cut-out paper dolls not directly and intimately intertwined with the rest of creation as reflected in modern physics and biology?

Those kind of why's….answer that and the need for the shoes drops to a very small number of people.

 
 
 

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