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Beat Your Pain Using the Biopsychosocial Model

Beat Your Pain Using the Biopsychosocial Model

by Jessica Kisiel | Jan 21, 2021 | Injury Recovery, Pain Science Education

  Pain is: “An unpleasant sensory and emotional experience associated with, or resembling that associated with, actual or potential tissue damage.”   This updated definition of pain was provided by The International Association for the Study of Pain (IASP)...
Conquer Your Fear of Pain with Movement

Conquer Your Fear of Pain with Movement

by Jessica Kisiel | Aug 5, 2020 | Injury Recovery, Personal Wellness

Kinesiophobia: “the avoidance of activity because you fear it will cause pain.” –Norman J. Marcus, MD While I was talking with one of my clients who had suffered from back pain for over four years, he realized that only when distracted did he not have pain with...
Posture Therapy: A Bodyworker’s Perspective

Posture Therapy: A Bodyworker’s Perspective

by Jessica Kisiel | May 7, 2019 | Injury Recovery, Personal Wellness, Posture and Technique

Last summer, Elizabeth Lamoureux was diagnosed with Femoroacetabular Impingement (FAI) in her right hip. FAI creates abnormal contact and wear in the hip joint, between the ball—top of the femur (thigh bone)—and the socket—acetabulum (depression in the pelvic bone)....
5 Lessons from the Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR) Course

5 Lessons from the Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR) Course

by Jessica Kisiel | Mar 27, 2019 | Personal Wellness

Do you. . . Want to reduce your stress and increase your happiness? Crave a slower pace of life with time to relax and breathe? Suffer from chronic pain, anxiety, depression or disturbed sleep? If you answered yes, Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction, or MBSR, may be...

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