Your muscles reflect your emotional patterns and behaviours, sometimes very painfully.
Given time these muscle patterns can imprison you and your moods in a downward spiral.
Here are some simple ways to get your muscles, and you, out of your Covid-19 prison.
“Pain is the human bodyguard, the cop on the beat racing to the scene, sirens wailing, shutting down traffic. You’ve been cut, burned, broken: pay attention, stop the bleeding, apply heat, apply cold, do something. It’s one of life’s most primitive mechanisms, by which even the simplest creature, if it has anything like a central nervous system, learns to avoid danger, stay out of bad neighbourhoods, hunker down to give itself time to heal. Pain is…”
By Alice Park – Time Magazine
“There are a number of ‘laws’ that the body uses in order to function, understanding these laws can improve your comprehension of what is occurring when you are sore, injured or attempting to treat an injury. When we set out to design the entire Wellness at Work Forensic Bodywork rehabilitation and training systems we used these laws to provide us with clear directions in developing technologies that would deliver safe rapid outcomes…”
By Chris Toal – Wellness at Work
“Although it is a remarkably common condition, PCS has no universally agreed-upon definition. It is normally considered to be post to minor head injuries and is defined by the absence of objective Neurological findings. Symptoms can persist for months or years after injuries, and current data is unclear stating as low as 29 and up to 90 percent of head-trauma patients ‘may’ develop PCS…”
By Chris Toal – Wellness at Work
“Opening up to Kathryn Powley about her daughter’s hidden illness, the dance diva admits she just didn’t understand. Dancing star Candy Lane’s daughter Jaz dragged herself home from school, went straight upstairs to her room, pulled the curtains against the bright summer day and fell into bed. The fifteen-year-old desperately hoped the pain in her belly would stop – but Jaz knew…”
By Katherine Powley – Womans Day
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