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CLINICAL SOMATIC EDUCATION -- THE ALTERNATIVE TO CHIROPRACTIC THAT TEACHES YOUR BODY TO SELF-ADJUST |
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How does this compare with chiropractic? |
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Which is better -- to go to a doctor of chiropractic who can adjust your spine or to go to a clinical somatic educator who can teach your body to be self-adjusting? | ||
Like chiropractic, Hanna Somatic Education® (HSE) improves skeletal alignment and joint mobility to reduce pain and improve bodily functioning. Unlike chiropractic, Hanna Somatic Education doesn't involve manipulations or adjustments; instead, it teaches your brain to make those adjustments from within and on an ongoing, moment-to-moment basis. The result is long-lasting improvements without need for indefinite (or frequent) office visits. HSE rapidly improves muscular control and coordination -- which are brain-functions -- to get these results. Your brain controls your muscles; your muscles move your bones. So, through your muscles, your brain controls your skeletal alignment. Habitually tight muscles distort movement and cause stiffness and pain. HSE corrects muscular malfunctions that underlie pain, stiffness and skeletal misalignment. Muscles relax. Pain disappears. Movement and function improve.
Sessions of Hanna Somatic Education teach your body to be self-adjusting. Sessions free you from old, restrictive muscular tension patterns and give you free muscular functioning and a self-adjusting skeleton. Tight muscles relax. You feel freer. Spontaneous spinal self-adjustments (complete with popping) sometimes occur immediately after or even during a procedure. As with all learning-based changes in life, the improvements you gain soon seem second-nature.
When you get a massage or adjustment, it's a matter of hours or days before you revert to your old condition. Why? Your brain reinstates the condition to which it has been accustomed. It counteracts the adjustment.
If you see a chiropractor regularly, HSE makes chiropractic adjustments easier and longer-lasting. Many problems resolve much more quickly, including those (such as migraine headaches) that have resisted various methods of treatment.
In summary, chiropractic deals primarily with the "hardware" (skeletal system); HSE deals with the "software" (brain conditioning) that controls the "hardware". Adjust the hardware or debug the software that controls the hardware: which is the better approach?
Thousands have benefitted from clinical somatic education. The video at the top of this page shows one client; here are words from others.
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The Institute for Somatic Study and Development
Santa Fe, NM 87508
Lawrence Gold, clinical somatic education
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