The Pain Cycle
The Pain Cycle begins with an injury. The injury then causes pain. Tissue damage occurs when there has been some type of trauma such as auto accidents, injuries at work, home or playing sports. Then the body learns to move in a way to avoid the pain.
When we avoid the pain, our body leads to stress in the joints and imbalance in the muscles. When we become unbalanced, we experience poor posture. Weak posture causes more stress and then the pain cycle trains our body’s patterns to adapt.
Over a period of time, our body’s compensation and adaptation continues to weaken balance and posture and our joints become unstable. This cycle produces more injuries, chronic pain and degeneration of the joints.
The problem is the pain cycle and the solution is the motion cycle. We can break the pain cycle and replace it with the proper balance of motion. When our joints move freely, our muscles will become strong and flexible. Breaking the pain cycle is a choice we all need to make.
Rhonda Kendrick, CA
