Why Using the Feldenkrais Method to Treat Pain Makes Sense
Although familiar with the name of the syndrome they experience: "arthritis", "bursitis", "sciatica", most would prefer to know why they have pain, and what they can do to relieve it.
The Feldenkrais Method suggests pain is directly related to the way people use themselves as they move, how they are organized for movement.
Functionally organized movement allows one to be efficient: to get the most work from your body with the least amount of effort.
Organized movement is a matter of cleverness.
Can your body properly, effortlessly, and pleasurably interpret the work you ask from it? Distributing larger efforts to large muscles and bones, and finer smaller efforts to small muscles and bones in a kinematically functional way represents good organization and efficient functioning.
Note that organized movement has nothing to do with strength or fitness.
These define capacities for work, not how cleverly the work is accomplished.
How do we attain the ideal? Complex human actions are learned, and functional organization implies the body has learned to move in biomechanically efficient ways.
Inefficient movements develop in response to pain, misuse, and overuse.
Inefficient movements also develop from disease and from disuse.
Once disorganized, the body learns to avoid pain by using compensated, inefficient movement patterns to perform intended actions.
Ultimately, pain and other disabilities develop because of poor somatic organization for movement.
Pain is the message that something is wrong.
However, our body parts may not need to be replaced, fixed or medicated when they "break", but instead reeducated to use more effective action patterns.
Effective actions relieve pain by promoting environments for recovery.
The Feldenkrais Method offers a variety of strategies to relieve most pain and disability.
It can help alleviate the chronic pain of arthritis and headaches.
Programs can be designed to prevent surgery, provide rehabilitation after surgery, and alleviate the pain not relieved with surgery.
Your ability to function after stroke or joint replacement can be improved, as well as your ability to live more comfortably with balance problems, sleep disorders, and breathing difficulties.
Athletes and other artists experience improved performance as well as a faster, more complete recovery from acute injuries.
Visit frequency is typically once or twice weekly, and most people are discharged from regular care within 90 days.
The Feldenkrais Method suggests pain is directly related to the way people use themselves as they move, how they are organized for movement.
Functionally organized movement allows one to be efficient: to get the most work from your body with the least amount of effort.
Organized movement is a matter of cleverness.
Can your body properly, effortlessly, and pleasurably interpret the work you ask from it? Distributing larger efforts to large muscles and bones, and finer smaller efforts to small muscles and bones in a kinematically functional way represents good organization and efficient functioning.
Note that organized movement has nothing to do with strength or fitness.
These define capacities for work, not how cleverly the work is accomplished.
How do we attain the ideal? Complex human actions are learned, and functional organization implies the body has learned to move in biomechanically efficient ways.
Inefficient movements develop in response to pain, misuse, and overuse.
Inefficient movements also develop from disease and from disuse.
Once disorganized, the body learns to avoid pain by using compensated, inefficient movement patterns to perform intended actions.
Ultimately, pain and other disabilities develop because of poor somatic organization for movement.
Pain is the message that something is wrong.
However, our body parts may not need to be replaced, fixed or medicated when they "break", but instead reeducated to use more effective action patterns.
Effective actions relieve pain by promoting environments for recovery.
The Feldenkrais Method offers a variety of strategies to relieve most pain and disability.
It can help alleviate the chronic pain of arthritis and headaches.
Programs can be designed to prevent surgery, provide rehabilitation after surgery, and alleviate the pain not relieved with surgery.
Your ability to function after stroke or joint replacement can be improved, as well as your ability to live more comfortably with balance problems, sleep disorders, and breathing difficulties.
Athletes and other artists experience improved performance as well as a faster, more complete recovery from acute injuries.
Visit frequency is typically once or twice weekly, and most people are discharged from regular care within 90 days.
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