What kinds of pain & "conditions" can Somatic Education address?

This is a huge question - and an important one!

The short answer is that it is HIGHLY effective at combatting pain that comes from functional problems (i.e. pain that's caused by tight muscles & the effects of that on various systems in the body - including the fight/flight/freeze response, the digestive system, & cardiovascular system).

KEY to realise is that many pains & problems we have that are thought of (& often diagnosed) as structural, are in fact functional in nature: this was the key insight of Thomas Hanna's, who created the practice of Clinical Somatic Education.

So: a typical example is a person with chronic back pain: there may be a diagnosis around a structural issue (such as a disc problem) - but the PAIN is coming from the CHRONIC muscle tightness in the area... when that is eased, pain most often goes away (even if the structrual 'defect' remains, in many cases).

There are other issues that are often identified as structural but are entirely functional (e.g. a functional scoliosis, as opposed to a structural scoliosis; pain that does NOT come from arthritis but is assumed to do so due to myths & assumptions about what happens to people as they age...).

In terms of structural problems, Somatics is also very helpful at easing & addressing very many of these (such as e.g. a structural scoliosis or arthritis). That said, somatics alone cannot 'cure' or completely resolve structural problems. The often immense benefits come, though, because a Somatics practice improves overall wellness & ease in the body, which helps the body's systems function more efficiently & effectively.

As a result, Essential Somatics® Movements and Clinical Somatic Education can be highly effective in addressing a genuinely wide range of aches, pains, and “conditions” - including (but not limited to) back pain, neck pain, hip pain, scoliosis, sciatica, wrist pain, foot pain, tension headaches, plantar fasciitis, carpal tunnel syndrome, fibromyalgia and associated pain, shallow breathing, stooping and other postural problems, many pains diagnosed (not always accurately) as arthritis, osteoporosis, and similar (where the issue may not be structural - as those diagnoses suggest - but may rather be functional, which is something mainstream healthcare tends not to address). Since ES and CSE can help alleviate pain from structural problems, and does not involve pushing or forcing the human body in ways it’s not designed to move, it can of course be undertaken ‘even if’ the problem is structural rather than functional.

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