by Jessica Kisiel | Mar 5, 2024 | Injury Recovery, Pain Science Education, Personal Wellness
Do you continually worry about and focus on your pain? Do you put pressure on yourself to figure out how to fix your pain and become frustrated or angry when the pain doesn’t go away? Do you degrade yourself because you’re still hurting? Do you fight against the pain...
by Jessica Kisiel | Feb 23, 2024 | Pain Science Education, Personal Wellness
Pain Reprocessing Therapy (PRT) is a research-based treatment approach for healing neuroplastic pain. These techniques were found to be highly effective for chronic back pain in a 2022 study. Refer to my blog, New Research on Back Pain, for all the details. Earlier...
by Jessica Kisiel | Jan 9, 2024 | Personal Wellness, Posture and Technique
Imagine a class that combines yoga, Pilates, core training, body awareness, and breathwork. Then add exercises proven to improve alignment, balance, and function. Next, blend practices into the class that calm the nervous system and expose the mind to new perspectives...
by Jessica Kisiel | May 15, 2023 | Personal Wellness
In January 2022 I listened to the Wellcoaches’ continuing education (CE) class–“The Urgency of Sabbaticals” by DJ DiDonna, founder of the Sabbatical Project. I recall that before I took the class, I had recently talked with an excited client about his sabbatical and...
by Jessica Kisiel | Jan 10, 2023 | Injury Recovery, Personal Wellness
Chronic pain is a complex experience. I like to say that it is a whole person experience affecting many aspects of one’s life that goes far beyond an unpleasant physical sensation. On my client intake form, I ask, “Do you have any ideas about what it is...
by Jessica Kisiel | Nov 10, 2022 | Injury Recovery, Personal Wellness, Posture and Technique
Please enjoy this guest blog by Dr. Michael L. Rothman, M.D. Dr Rothman is a former orthopedic surgeon who now helps his patients overcome chronic pain using posture alignment therapy. He is an Advanced Exercise Therapist (AET), certified by the Egoscue Institute, who...
