I work with people in pain almost every day and have discovered that there is no benefit to discounting the pain, trying to tell someone that "pain is gain" or that they have to push through it.   Instead, acknowledging the pain, finding a new focal point of comfort, and teaching an allowance for movement through the pain with the focus of achieving even one degree of less pain after the mobility; is the approach that works time and again.  

Chances are that you are no stranger to pain or the effects that it has on your loved one.  You may have fallen into the cycle of allowing for stagnation and compensation because of your loved one's complaints of pain.  Then, noticed that they are doing less for themself, moving less, becoming weaker and ironically enough, developing more pain.   

In this episode, you can learn how to get mobility and activity through the limitations of pain by using assisted range of motion, and visualization, combined with breath work, and incorporation of the movement of the body around the source of pain.  

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