PHYSIOTHERAPY SESSION with STRETCHING EXERCISES...
Posted Nov 18 2010 9:40am
Yesterday I had another physiotherapy session at the pain clinic and my physio explained to me that some of the most common pain is due to scar and stiffness of tight connective tissues.
Scar tissue is apparently like rubber cement hardening as it dries and with time it will loosen up, if you stretch it.
Pain manifests itself in different ways for each of us. When you are in pain, mother nature is prompting you to find a comfortable position and finding the pain is like finding the eye of the hurricane, so to speak, the 'epicentre' of the pain.
Mobilization means helping the body find positions where it can move and function efficiently. So my physio's aim was to let my body treat itself . She would press on the painful spasm until I could feel the pain go away and then relax. Then she would stretch it and relax.
My worst pain yesterday was in my neck which had gone into a bit of spasm from what we think was the long car journey's I had on Monday, but she explained to me that a lot of it would be from scar tissue.
Today I feel like I have been doing a workout with my arms and my neck which actually feel quite stiff but which I know will relax and feel a lot better soon.
For my next session she is going to show me how to stretch some of my muscles using a tight elastic.
Yesterday I had another physiotherapy session at the pain clinic and my physio explained to me that some of the most common pain is due to scar and stiffness of tight connective tissues.
Scar tissue is apparently like rubber cement hardening as it dries and with time it will loosen up, if you stretch it.
Pain manifests itself in different ways for each of us. When you are in pain, mother nature is prompting you to find a comfortable position and finding the pain is like finding the eye of the hurricane, so to speak, the 'epicentre' of the pain.
Mobilization means helping the body find positions where it can move and function efficiently. So my physio's aim was to let my body treat itself . She would press on the painful spasm until I could feel the pain go away and then relax. Then she would stretch it and relax.
My worst pain yesterday was in my neck which had gone into a bit of spasm from what we think was the long car journey's I had on Monday, but she explained to me that a lot of it would be from scar tissue.
Today I feel like I have been doing a workout with my arms and my neck which actually feel quite stiff but which I know will relax and feel a lot better soon.
For my next session she is going to show me how to stretch some of my muscles using a tight elastic.