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The Chicken or the Egg in Pain and Posture

7/23/2015

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We all know pain and posture are interrelated but what came first, the chicken or the egg?
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To find out, let’s have a look around the chicken coop.
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We’ve all seen people who have back spasms and are bent over and often leaned to one side and I think most people assume they look like that because of the pain.
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And we’ve seen people with osteoporosis whose upper back is rounded over in a C-curve and we believe it’s because of the disease.
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And we've met people who have osteoarthritis in their knees and we think the arthritis is what has caused the bow-legged posture.
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But what if it was the other way around? 

What if the imbalanced posture created the pain?

What if the poor spinal alignment caused the osteoporosis? 

What if the faulty knee alignment caused the osteoarthritis? 

Would that change the way you treat your pain?

It has for the thousands of clients I have worked with at Oregon Exercise Therapy as an Egoscue University certified Postural Alignment Specialist and Advanced Exercise Therapist. Clients, who were dependent on pain killers and muscle relaxers because of back spasms, have been able to get off all medication. Clients, who were told they’d be in a wheelchair because of the osteoporosis, have gotten back to daily walks, gardening, and dancing again. Clients, who were scheduled for a knee replacement, have canceled the surgery because they are pain free. And all because they changed the way they were looking at and treating their pain.

So, what’s it to you? The chicken or the egg?

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    I'm an Egoscue Institute certified Postural Alignment Specialist (PAS) and Advanced Exercise Therapist (AET), certified personal trainer, PatchFitness performer, FiveFingers wearer, trail runner, mountain biker, dad, music lover, environmentalist, and wanna-be slam dunk champion. I will be providing you with the latest posture exercises to help you live, play, and be pain free.

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