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GENERAL Ageing Well Athletic Training Back Pain Breathing Carpal Tunnel Syndrome Equine Concerns Ergonomics Fibromyalgia Fitness and Health Hamstrings, Tight Headaches Health Care Crisis, the HIV/AIDS, exercise benefits Knee Problems Injuries Pain Relief

Psoas Muscles Pilates Sciatica Sacroiliac/S-I Joint Shingles Somatic Education Stress Management Stretching Success Stories Therapeutic Exercises TMJ Syndrome / TMD Traction Unequal Leg Length Weight Training Whiplash Injuries Workplace Injuries

High strung or unstrung? a poem The snapping of tendon the popping of joint the hitch in your git-along all point to a point: You're a bit too high-strung and it shows when you move: your joints and your tendons are out of their groove. If you get back some slack, and get freedom to move your joints and your tendons can get back in their groove. Get a grip and let go. I'll show you the way. You'll surely feel better by the end of the day.

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GENERAL	An Entirely New Class of Therapeutic Exercises What Happens in a Hanna Somatics Session? Are You Like Humpty Dumpty?" the universal human condition | (PDF) "Somatic Education is Easy to Understand" (PDF) "Using Your Brain to End Pain" - Presentation, "Head-to-Toe 9" Conference for Educators, 2005 (audio - MP3 format)
Ageing Well	Ageing Well, Successful Aging, Healthy Aging | (PDF) "How Injuries Accelerate Aging"
Athletic Training	"Pandiculation Instead of Stretching Enhance Agility and Reduce Accidental Injuries" "Secrets of Strong Legs and Agility" (PDF) Words on Fitness Walking (PDF)
Back Pain	New Answers to Common Questions about Back Injuries and Back Pain "How to Self-Relieve Low Back Pain" "A New Way to Relieve Chronic Back Pain" "Understanding Typical Terms Applied to Back Pain" Medication Alternatives for Back Pain (guest contribution)
Breathing	Better Breathing
Carpal Tunnel Syndrome	see Workplace Injuries, below (click link at left)
Equestrian Concerns	"Are You Making Your Horse Lame?" Completing Recovery from an Injury
Hamstrings, Tight injuries knee problems	"Free Your Hamstrings and Protect Your Knees"
Headaches	"Headache Relief by New Somatic Techniques"
Knee Problems	See hamstrings, tight.
Pain Relief	"Definitive Pain Relief from Somatic Education" "What Happens When You Ignore Pain" (PDF) "Might You Be Strengthening Your Pain?" (PDF) "Sensory-Motor Amnesia: One Explanation for Idiopathic Pain" Pain Medication - A Mixed Blessing (PDF)
Pilates	"The Differences in Pilates’ and Alexander’s Approaches to Self- Improvement - Part I"
Psoas Muscles	"For Psoas Muscle Groin Pain: a Better Way to End It and Regain Free Movement" "The Well-Tempered Psoas -- The Inner Psoas -- Freeing Tight Psoas Muscles" | PDF "Questions and Answers about Psoas Muscle Function and Dysfunction"
Sacro-iliac Joint Dysfunction	"Understanding SacroIliac Joint Pain, Stopping the Pain and Weird Symptoms" "Symptoms of Sacroiliac Joint Dysfunction | Sacroiliac Pain" More Detail about Sacroiliac Joint Dysfunction Getting Started at No Charge: "The Unit 1 of the Regimen For Sacro-Iliac (Iliosacral) Joint Pain / Pelvic Distress"
Sciatica	" How to End Your Own Sciatica Pain in 1 - 3 Weeks" | PDF
Stress Management	"Stress Relief" "An Expanded View of the Three Reflexes of Stress"
Stretching	"Pandiculation Exercises Instead of Stretching" (way beyond "active isolated stretching)
Success Stories	Disc Trouble Broken Back (fractured vertebrae) from a young purchaser of The Guidebook of Somatic Transformational Exercises
Traction Therapy	"The Case Against Traction as a Clinical Modality" | PDF preliminary clinical study on the uses of traction (PDF)
TMJ Syndrome / TMD	"Treatments for TMJ Syndrome" Common Causes of TMJ Syndrome/Bruxism TMJ Syndrome TMD/Bruxism Symptoms A New TMJ Therapeutic Approach
Unequal Leg Length	"Unequal Leg Length"
Weight Training	"About Weight Training"
Whiplash Injuries	"Recovery from Whiplash Injuries"
Workplace Injuries	"Avoiding or Curing Carpal Tunnel Syndrome and Other 'terminal' Diseases" "Understanding and Healing Lifting Injuries" (PDF)

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