by Jessica Kisiel | Jun 25, 2026 | Posture and Technique
Your knees are designed to move over your toes. This functional motion is necessary in many common movements, including rising from a chair, using stairs, deep lunging and squatting, hiking, and more. Unfortunately, the message to keep the knees inline or behind the...
by Jessica Kisiel | Sep 17, 2025 | Posture and Technique
Changes are coming at The Pain Free Athlete! Most noticeably the website will be redesigned with an updated version launching this weekend and the newsletter distribution and blogs reducing to quarterly publication. These modifications are needed to free up some of my...
by Jessica Kisiel | Aug 12, 2025 | Pain Science Education, Personal Wellness
Pain Story Project is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization dedicated to reducing the incidence of chronic pain through education and coaching. The truth is, when we hurt, we devise stories about why we have pain. It is a natural human reaction. These stories help us to...
by Jessica Kisiel | Jul 8, 2025 | Injury Recovery, Pain Science Education
How we view ourselves matters. Whether we realize it or not, we have strongly held ideas about our abilities and bodies. In other words, we have applied labels to ourselves which in many cases contain a judgement such as, I am a good driver, I have a bad shoulder, I...
by Jessica Kisiel | Jun 24, 2025 | Personal Wellness, Sports Training
During a recent training call I attended, the teacher likened the meditative state to experiencing flow or being in the zone. Further, he went on to explain that both of these concepts reference an altered state of consciousness. Essentially, no matter what you call...
