Kinesiology Informed Self-Help Techniques
Don't worry I'm not going to ask you to muscle check yourself or use a pendulum to discover challenges, emotional blocks or pain release!
What I am asking you to do is be involved in your treatment - take charge of your pain or anxiety
Importance of Active rather than Passive Treatment
Active treatment requires you to do something and it is more powerful and builds your resilience long term.
Passive treatments are without any action by you - passive treatment is done to you by a therapist or a machine.
At times it's important to choose the correct type of treatment depending on where you are in your pain journey.
Passive treatment can be effective for several days.
But when pain returns this shows that neuroplastic treatment is needed for change to take place.
Jean learnt how to successful treat chronic pain by integrating kinesiology muscles checking to identify past life events that needed attention and consideration by the client.
To take an active part in their pain treatment.
Constant, persistent or recurring pain treatment
One of the major findings about 'pain that stays' is that pain is caused by the brain.
Pain signals are generated by the brain though we feel them as physical sensations in our body.
If you are looking to improve your movement, reduce your level of pain or in need of rehab then you are in the right place.
Treatment is generally for acute injury that need the attention of your doctor, nor is treatment for those people who want someone to fix them – YOU are part of the treatment protocol!
New Pain Treatment Ideas Involve You!
Jean’s treatment is gentle and inclusive so you will be expected to be part of the treatment learning self-help techniques to hasten your return to normal function.
Jean has run clinics in Perth and more lately in Christchurch. To reach more people in persistent pain she has created an online program available in New Zealand.
Take the opportunity to find out more about your ongoing pain by booking a complementary session.
Postgraduate Study in Pain Management
Recently she added Postgraduate Study in Pain Management from Otago University to fully understand the medical journey that many people travel due to ill health and their search to be fit and well.
Jean combines her training and experience as a qualified Naturopath, Kinesiologist, Educational Kinesiologist and Yoga Teacher and melds all the knowledge and skills from these modalities to provide comprehensive treatment for all types of clients.
For over 20 years she has been helping people make changes that have held them back from doing what makes them feel joyful and took the opportunity during Covid to do postgraduate study in Pain Management at Otago university.
New Ideas in Chronic Pain Treatment
We are now starting to see new ideas in the treatment of chronic pain such as the work of Howard Schubiner, Alan Gordon and Peter O’Sullivan who are all advocating, what I call a whole of person therapy.
It’s important to recognise we are not machines, a painful knee or arthritic hand is not separate from the person that eats, who feels emotions and has had past experiences. The past is how we react to the present, although connecting a sore knee may seem rather a stretch.
Persistent Pain from Past Trauma and Injury
One factor that needs to be taken into consideration is to find the cause of persistent or chronic pain.
We cannot isolate one occasion of pain or anxiety as the brain has a process called 'predictive coding' that means it relies on what has happened in the past to inform or condition how our brain hence ourselves experience pain or stress.
Below are some links that can help give you more background information before you contact me or you if you prefer to discuss face to face click below to book an appointment with me.
Can you use an Holistic Approach to Chronic Pain?
When you get a diagnosis many things can go through your mind:
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My father had back pain so that's why I've got it - no surprise
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That's awful - it's going to get worse as I get older
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I won't be able to do my work or my sport
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I will have to live with pain for the rest of my life
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Will an operation stop the pain?
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What medications can I take to stop the pain or the arthritis get worse?
Unfortunately these are the messages we get from doctors, from friends or from relatives.
