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Pain Relief | Learn How Somatics Clears Up Your Condition 

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Pain Relief | Learn How Somatics Clears Up Your Condition 

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Adhesive Capsulitis

Arthritis: see Osteoarthritis

Back Pain

Balance problems

Bursitis - See Pain, Chronic

Constipation, chronic

Dislocations, frequent: 

  see Hypermobility, below

Displaced Patella

Dizziness

Foot Pain/Tired Feet

Frequent Urination

Frozen Shoulder

Groin Pain

Hamstrings, taut

Headaches

  • migraines
  • tension headaches
  • sinus headaches

Hip Pain

Hypermobility

Adhesive Capsulitis

Arthritis: see Osteoarthritis

Back Pain

Balance problems

Bursitis - See Pain, Chronic

Constipation, chronic

Dislocations, frequent: 

  see Hypermobility, below

Displaced Patella

Dizziness

Foot Pain/Tired Feet

Frequent Urination

Frozen Shoulder

Groin Pain

Hamstrings, taut

Headaches

  • migraines
  • tension headaches
  • sinus headaches

Hip Pain

Hypermobility

What to Expect

Here's what you should expect from clinical somatic education:

  • to get you into the fast-lane to long-term relief from pain
  • to resume progress healing injuries labelled, "chronic" or "permanent and stationary"
  • eliminate trigger points and the need for pain meds, muscle relaxants, stretching, or massage therapy
  • to improve balance, mobility and physical comfort even in the aged
  • to restore energy taxed away by pain
  • to enable you to come back to your life, again, whole

What to Expect

Here's what you should expect from clinical somatic education:

  • to get you into the fast-lane to long-term relief from pain
  • to resume progress healing injuries labelled, "chronic" or "permanent and stationary"
  • eliminate trigger points and the need for pain meds, muscle relaxants, stretching, or massage therapy
  • to improve balance, mobility and physical comfort even in the aged
  • to restore energy taxed away by pain
  • to enable you to come back to your life, again, whole

INJURY CONDITIONS within the SCOPE of PRACTICE

Select (click on) an underlined item to learn how somatic education (and muscular functions) apply to it. For guided self-relief programs, click here

To locate a practitioner, click here.

INJURY CONDITIONS within the SCOPE of PRACTICE

Select (click on) an underlined item to learn how somatic education (and muscular functions) apply to it. For guided self-relief programs, click here

To locate a practitioner, click here.

Clinical somatic education is for people ready to participate actively in their own healing, ready to do something different -- who have lost faith in, or patience with, the medical system and are taking matters into their own hands -- and for health care practitioners looking for something more than the conventional modalities, to help their patients.

There exists a well-defined process in which you, as a client, actively participate, with tangible, obvious (i.e., blatant), cumulative improvements accumulating at each step, until you're done. 

This process involves (1) identifying patterns of ongoing muscular tension directly resulting from injury, (2) deliberately tightening those muscles in their injury pattern using a technique called, pandiculation, to recover muscular control, and (3) using patterned movement exercises to replace the painful tension patterns with pain-free, healthy movement patterns.

Typically, five-to-ten clinical sessions are needed, about once weekly. If you're working with a self-relief (somatic education exercise) program, results come more gradually, but distinctly.

If you've been getting treatment for pain for a long time and aren't getting better, aren't getting better fast enough, or if different doctors have given different diagnoses and you've "tried everything" without satisfactory improvement; if you fear that you may have to live that way for the rest of your life, clinical somatic education may indeed be for you.

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Clinical somatic education is for people ready to participate actively in their own healing, ready to do something different -- who have lost faith in, or patience with, the medical system and are taking matters into their own hands -- and for health care practitioners looking for something more than the conventional modalities, to help their patients.

There exists a well-defined process in which you, as a client, actively participate, with tangible, obvious (i.e., blatant), cumulative improvements accumulating at each step, until you're done. 

This process involves (1) identifying patterns of ongoing muscular tension directly resulting from injury, (2) deliberately tightening those muscles in their injury pattern using a technique called, pandiculation, to recover muscular control, and (3) using patterned movement exercises to replace the painful tension patterns with pain-free, healthy movement patterns.

Typically, five-to-ten clinical sessions are needed, about once weekly. If you're working with a self-relief (somatic education exercise) program, results come more gradually, but distinctly.

If you've been getting treatment for pain for a long time and aren't getting better, aren't getting better fast enough, or if different doctors have given different diagnoses and you've "tried everything" without satisfactory improvement; if you fear that you may have to live that way for the rest of your life, clinical somatic education may indeed be for you.

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A partial list of disorders for which Hanna Somatic Education is a good solution appears below. Click a title to see the approach used to address each. These disorders typically resolve completely or very substantially improve for the long term within a few sessions.

The promise of satisfying results is backed by a money-back guarantee.

Hanna Somatic Educators identify persistent muscular tension patterns that cause pain (disorders listed below) and then correct them using the Pandiculation Technique and other somatic education techniques.

A partial list of disorders for which Hanna Somatic Education is a good solution appears below. Click a title to see the approach used to address each. These disorders typically resolve completely or very substantially improve for the long term within a few sessions.

The promise of satisfying results is backed by a money-back guarantee.

Hanna Somatic Educators identify persistent muscular tension patterns that cause pain (disorders listed below) and then correct them using the Pandiculation Technique and other somatic education techniques.

INJURY and STRESS-RELATED CONDITIONS HELPED

INJURY and STRESS-RELATED CONDITIONS HELPED

Click bulleted items below for answers to key questions about Somatics:

  • Wikipedia Entry on Somatics

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  • Lingering or Recurrent Pain, Injuries, Recovery
  • What Happens in a Clinical Somatic Education Session

Click bulleted items below for answers to key questions about Somatics:

  • Wikipedia Entry on Somatics

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  • Lingering or Recurrent Pain, Injuries, Recovery
  • What Happens in a Clinical Somatic Education Session

A skilled practitioner can predict, with a high degree of accuracy, the number of sessions required to clear up a given malady -- usually, a few.

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A skilled practitioner can predict, with a high degree of accuracy, the number of sessions required to clear up a given malady -- usually, a few.

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The Main Technique Used in Clinical Somatic Education to Produce Outcomes Better Than Conventional Therapies

The Main Technique Used in Clinical Somatic Education to Produce Outcomes Better Than Conventional Therapies

UNDERSTANDING VARIOUS DYSFUNCTIONS 

as addressed by CLINICAL SOMATIC EDUCATION

Adhesive Capsulitis

Often associated with "frozen" joints. Common misdiagnosis: there may be no adhesions. Instead, muscles affecting bone movement may be contracted, restricting movement and creating pain. Such misdiagnosis is common for frozen shoulders, which are the loosest joints, with the greatest slack, in the body. (to article)

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UNDERSTANDING VARIOUS DYSFUNCTIONS 

as addressed by CLINICAL SOMATIC EDUCATION

Adhesive Capsulitis

Often associated with "frozen" joints. Common misdiagnosis: there may be no adhesions. Instead, muscles affecting bone movement may be contracted, restricting movement and creating pain. Such misdiagnosis is common for frozen shoulders, which are the loosest joints, with the greatest slack, in the body. (to article)

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Back Pain (common -- Lower Back Pain, Lumbar Strain)

Back pain is common in industrialized societies because of nervous tension associated with the "clock and deadline" way of life. The stresses of being "on the go," of producing results, meeting deadlines, multi-tasking and other demands of that way of life add to accumulated nervous tension, affect the muscles of the back of the body, and produce muscle fatigue and soreness. Then, a minor additional demand on those muscles, such as those of leaning over, is sometimes sufficient to trigger a back spasm. Disk degeneration and sciatica sometimes follow, also the result of muscle tension and spine overcompression. Somatic education brings muscle function back into the normal range. (to article)

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Balance problems

Tight hamstrings interfere with foot position. By turning the lower legs at the knee, they cause the feet to roll in or out, causing poor contact of the feet with the ground: unstable foundation. Unevenly tight trunk muscles induce a postural side-tilt that displaces weight to one side, leading to a state of chronic imbalance. Tight neck muscles interfere with proper head carriage and movement, distorting the sensations provided by the balance centers of the inner ear. One or more may "conspire" together to create balance problems (To article) 

See Dizziness

Dizziness / Vertigo

Caused by excessive neck tension and off-center, off-balance head position.

The eyes, balance centers of the inner ears, and muscles of the neck are connected via brain-level reflexes controlled at the brain stem. The muscles of the neck move the head; the balance centers of the inner ear sense head movement. The eyes move with head movement to continue tracking whatever is being looked at. The brain coordinates these movements.

When the head is off-center, the brain senses the situation and maintains head-balance by means of muscular actions (corrective movements). When neck tension is excessive, however, the brain's corrective response is also excessive, which causes above-normal movements of the eyes, which creates excessive feedback to the brain stem (the sensations of movement). (Have you ever experienced the sensations of movement while watching a film?) The combination of incorrect sensory feedback, over-correction, excessive eye movement and feedback to the brain stem creates a spinning sensation.These sensations commonly abate immediately as neck tension comes under natural control and head movement and position normalizes.

Dizziness / Vertigo

Caused by excessive neck tension and off-center, off-balance head position.

The eyes, balance centers of the inner ears, and muscles of the neck are connected via brain-level reflexes controlled at the brain stem. The muscles of the neck move the head; the balance centers of the inner ear sense head movement. The eyes move with head movement to continue tracking whatever is being looked at. The brain coordinates these movements.

When the head is off-center, the brain senses the situation and maintains head-balance by means of muscular actions (corrective movements). When neck tension is excessive, however, the brain's corrective response is also excessive, which causes above-normal movements of the eyes, which creates excessive feedback to the brain stem (the sensations of movement). (Have you ever experienced the sensations of movement while watching a film?) The combination of incorrect sensory feedback, over-correction, excessive eye movement and feedback to the brain stem creates a spinning sensation.These sensations commonly abate immediately as neck tension comes under natural control and head movement and position normalizes.

  • article: "Lower Back Pain Relief Exercises for Relief That Lasts
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Headaches

  • Tension: habituated tension of the suboccipital neck muscles, which pull upon the connective tissue that enwraps the skull.
  • Migraine: vascular. Chronic contraction of the deep neck musculature along the sides and around the atlas (C1) may involve interference with the blood-pressure sensors in blood in the neck vessels. In any case, headaches end as the tension level of these muscles normalizes. The same deep neck musculature pulls the upper vertebrae against the base of the cranium causing additional mechanical pain.
  • Sinus: sinuses drain through the lining of the throat. Then throat muscles are tight, draining is blocked by the tension of the lining. As those muscles relax, draining has been observed to start immediately.

Headaches

  • Tension: habituated tension of the suboccipital neck muscles, which pull upon the connective tissue that enwraps the skull.
  • Migraine: vascular. Chronic contraction of the deep neck musculature along the sides and around the atlas (C1) may involve interference with the blood-pressure sensors in blood in the neck vessels. In any case, headaches end as the tension level of these muscles normalizes. The same deep neck musculature pulls the upper vertebrae against the base of the cranium causing additional mechanical pain.
  • Sinus: sinuses drain through the lining of the throat. Then throat muscles are tight, draining is blocked by the tension of the lining. As those muscles relax, draining has been observed to start immediately.
  • How do you get rid of headaches, naturally? See, Headache Relief by New Somatic Techniques

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  • How do you get rid of headaches, naturally? See, Headache Relief by New Somatic Techniques

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Hip/Hip Joint Pain

  • Overcompression by tight muscles
  • Cartilage loss
  • Sacroiliac Joint Dysfunction

Often, pain is misdiagnosed as coming from the joint, when it comes from the muscles that surround the joint. 

However, long-term overcompression of the joint by tight muscles leads to cartilage breakdown (thinning and loss). Bone-on-bone contact in the joint results, leading to joint-replacement surgery and to possible subsequent leg length difference and sciatica (see sciatica.

Sometimes, hip joint pain is a symptom of a twisted sacrum (sacroiliac joint dysfunction/sacroileitis). 

Hip/Hip Joint Pain

  • Overcompression by tight muscles
  • Cartilage loss
  • Sacroiliac Joint Dysfunction

Often, pain is misdiagnosed as coming from the joint, when it comes from the muscles that surround the joint. 

However, long-term overcompression of the joint by tight muscles leads to cartilage breakdown (thinning and loss). Bone-on-bone contact in the joint results, leading to joint-replacement surgery and to possible subsequent leg length difference and sciatica (see sciatica.

Sometimes, hip joint pain is a symptom of a twisted sacrum (sacroiliac joint dysfunction/sacroileitis). 

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Groin Pain

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Three main possible causes:

  • tight thigh adductor muscles (inner thigh)
  • tight psoas muscles (inner groin)
  • twisted sacrum/sacroiliac muscle strain

Groin Pain

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Three main possible causes:

  • tight thigh adductor muscles (inner thigh)
  • tight psoas muscles (inner groin)
  • twisted sacrum/sacroiliac muscle strain
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Psoas Muscle Pain

Sometimes called "weak" psoas muscles (usually wrongly), this kind of pain originates from muscle fatigue of overly tight psoas muscles, which run from the inner groin to the lumbar spine. Usually causing a top-forward pelvic tilt (excessive lumbar lordosis or curve) and a deep fold at the groin, tight psoas muscles cause low back fatigue, chronic constipation (explained in the entry linked, below) pelvic and "stomach" pain. Somatic training is usually sufficient to free contracted psoas muscles and to restore healthy function.

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POSSIBLE MISDIAGNOSIS 

People sometimes misdiagnose S-I (sacroiliac) joint dysfunction (or sacroileitis) as psoas muscle pain because symptoms of both may appear at the groin -- but psoas muscle contraction is a secondary effect of S-I joint dysfunction, not the primary cause of the pain. Attempts to relieve tight psoas without correcting S-I joint dysfunction may lead to rebound intensification of pain in the pelvis.

Pain in the region of the S-I joints may also result from excessive tension of the muscles of the low back, which are connected to soft-tissue in the sacro-iliac area. Such tension, in combination with buttock tension, can cause pain that mimics sacro-iliac pain.

Psoas Muscle Pain

Sometimes called "weak" psoas muscles (usually wrongly), this kind of pain originates from muscle fatigue of overly tight psoas muscles, which run from the inner groin to the lumbar spine. Usually causing a top-forward pelvic tilt (excessive lumbar lordosis or curve) and a deep fold at the groin, tight psoas muscles cause low back fatigue, chronic constipation (explained in the entry linked, below) pelvic and "stomach" pain. Somatic training is usually sufficient to free contracted psoas muscles and to restore healthy function.

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POSSIBLE MISDIAGNOSIS 

People sometimes misdiagnose S-I (sacroiliac) joint dysfunction (or sacroileitis) as psoas muscle pain because symptoms of both may appear at the groin -- but psoas muscle contraction is a secondary effect of S-I joint dysfunction, not the primary cause of the pain. Attempts to relieve tight psoas without correcting S-I joint dysfunction may lead to rebound intensification of pain in the pelvis.

Pain in the region of the S-I joints may also result from excessive tension of the muscles of the low back, which are connected to soft-tissue in the sacro-iliac area. Such tension, in combination with buttock tension, can cause pain that mimics sacro-iliac pain.

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Sacro-iliac Pain

The result of displacement of the sacrum (central pelvic bone) from its well-seated position, typically by injury (a blow, hard fall, or repetitive twist-and-lift actions). Muscular contractions/excessive muscular tension of the muscles of the buttock responsible for leg rotation (toe-out or in) and uneven pulls by waist muscles, change the angle of the pelvis and forces going through the S-I joints, and so maintain the dysfunctional condition.

Relieved by first relieving the sacrum of compression forces that keep one sacroiliac joint jammed, then by normalizing muscle/movement memory related to the pelvis and pelvic structure, changing weight-bearing and tension patterns, which causes the sacrum to migrate back to its well-seated position and healthy movement patterns.

Sacro-iliac Pain

The result of displacement of the sacrum (central pelvic bone) from its well-seated position, typically by injury (a blow, hard fall, or repetitive twist-and-lift actions). Muscular contractions/excessive muscular tension of the muscles of the buttock responsible for leg rotation (toe-out or in) and uneven pulls by waist muscles, change the angle of the pelvis and forces going through the S-I joints, and so maintain the dysfunctional condition.

Relieved by first relieving the sacrum of compression forces that keep one sacroiliac joint jammed, then by normalizing muscle/movement memory related to the pelvis and pelvic structure, changing weight-bearing and tension patterns, which causes the sacrum to migrate back to its well-seated position and healthy movement patterns.

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Shoulder, tight/painful

A common accompaniment of back pain from stress and nervous tension, shoulder muscle pain may also result from the shock of an injury that prompts one to tighten up/reflexively guard the injury (e.g., a fall or broken bone). "Frozen Shoulder" is commonly misdiagnosed as resulting from adhesions, whereas it usually results from highly contracted muscles immobilizing arm movement at the joint. "Frozen Shoulder" commonly "unfreezes" as soon as muscular suppleness is restored (by means of somatic education), without need for addressing "adhesions".

Shoulder joint pain occurs in three varieties:

  • NERVE PAIN
  • JOINT PAIN
  • BURSITIS

NERVE PAIN

Compression of the nerve to the shoulder by muscles in the neck creates sensation as if the shoulder were injured. The solution is to free the neck muscles and so to discompress the nerve by that means, rather than surgically (which may involve removal of neck muscles).

JOINT PAIN

The shoulder joint is designed to permit arm side-lift to 90 degrees (parallel to the ground). Further lifting requires the scapula (shoulder blade) to lift along with the arm. If muscles underneath the shoulder are tight, they prevent scapular movement, causing the humerus (upper arm bone) to jam into the joint, causing pain and cartilage damage (over time). The solution is to free the movement of the involved muscles (latissimus dorsi, pectoralis, serratus anterior).

BURSITIS

A bursa is a fluid-filled sac that cushions a tendon. At the shoulder, if the muscles are tight, their tendons are taut and compress the bursa, causing bursitis. The solution is to free the movements of the related muscles. (to article)

Shoulder, tight/painful

A common accompaniment of back pain from stress and nervous tension, shoulder muscle pain may also result from the shock of an injury that prompts one to tighten up/reflexively guard the injury (e.g., a fall or broken bone). "Frozen Shoulder" is commonly misdiagnosed as resulting from adhesions, whereas it usually results from highly contracted muscles immobilizing arm movement at the joint. "Frozen Shoulder" commonly "unfreezes" as soon as muscular suppleness is restored (by means of somatic education), without need for addressing "adhesions".

Shoulder joint pain occurs in three varieties:

  • NERVE PAIN
  • JOINT PAIN
  • BURSITIS

NERVE PAIN

Compression of the nerve to the shoulder by muscles in the neck creates sensation as if the shoulder were injured. The solution is to free the neck muscles and so to discompress the nerve by that means, rather than surgically (which may involve removal of neck muscles).

JOINT PAIN

The shoulder joint is designed to permit arm side-lift to 90 degrees (parallel to the ground). Further lifting requires the scapula (shoulder blade) to lift along with the arm. If muscles underneath the shoulder are tight, they prevent scapular movement, causing the humerus (upper arm bone) to jam into the joint, causing pain and cartilage damage (over time). The solution is to free the movement of the involved muscles (latissimus dorsi, pectoralis, serratus anterior).

BURSITIS

A bursa is a fluid-filled sac that cushions a tendon. At the shoulder, if the muscles are tight, their tendons are taut and compress the bursa, causing bursitis. The solution is to free the movements of the related muscles. (to article)

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Tendinitis / Tendonitis / Tendinosis

Tendons are like straps or bands of tissue that extend from the ends of muscle and attach to bone. Tendons are passive and do not get tight by themselves; they get tight when their muscles tighten and shorten. Tendinitis (or tendinosis) occurs when a muscle stays tight for long periods, as when protective reflexes get activated by injury. Strain on the tendon and friction of the tendon with surrounding tissue irritate the tendon and lead to inflammation and pain: tendonitis.

The necessary solution is to recapture control of the involved muscles from the involuntary reflexes (via somatic education). Without that step, anti-inflammatory drugs (such as cortizone) provide only temporary and symptomatic relief, while the injurious condition continues

Tendinitis / Tendonitis / Tendinosis

Tendons are like straps or bands of tissue that extend from the ends of muscle and attach to bone. Tendons are passive and do not get tight by themselves; they get tight when their muscles tighten and shorten. Tendinitis (or tendinosis) occurs when a muscle stays tight for long periods, as when protective reflexes get activated by injury. Strain on the tendon and friction of the tendon with surrounding tissue irritate the tendon and lead to inflammation and pain: tendonitis.

The necessary solution is to recapture control of the involved muscles from the involuntary reflexes (via somatic education). Without that step, anti-inflammatory drugs (such as cortizone) provide only temporary and symptomatic relief, while the injurious condition continues

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