Chronic pain isn't just tight muscles. A kinked hose analogy shows how disruptions anywhere from your skin to your brain can block sensory signals, making pain persist. The fix involves sensory training, stretching nerves, and recalibrating your visual and balance systems to restore how your brain reads touch.
What I do with my clients on a daily basis is assess what's happening. It's like a kinked hose, right? If you're getting touched on the arm and the receptors have to tell the nerve, the nerve has to tell the spinal cord, the spinal cord tells the subconscious brain, the subconscious brain tells the conscious brain, and then we're aware, hey, I got touched in the arm. Well, if there's something happening along that system somewhere and you don't know, your brain doesn't know, hey, This is what's happening through the system. We've got to clear that up, and we can do that with specific drills and specific movements. A lot of times that might be working on sensory input, that might be working, you know, so you can feel different things. You can feel hot and cold and vibration and sharp touch and things like that. It might be stretching the muscles and the nerves. It might be getting the visual system to work appropriately, and there's a lot that goes into that. It might be recalibrating the vestibular system and doing drills that way. So there's a lot of different things that we would do that are non-traditional exercise or non-traditional therapies to get those things working better so that you can adjust how you're feeling from a pain perspective.
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