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brantross
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 Posted - 08/11/2009 : 13:18:58
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After suffering a foot injury 7 months ago, I have residual pain and inflexibility in my foot. The doctors have assured me that there is nothing structurally wrong with my foot, but it is very inflexible. Everyone I have seen has recommended that I stretch my tight calves and do range of motion exercises for my foot, but when I try to stretch my calves, the tissue in my foot feels like it is being pulled on in a painful way and I can't even get to a calf stretch. Is extreme inflexibility and stiffness a part of TMS? If so, do I need to stretch in order to loosen up my foot or will the stiffness and inflexibility resolve itself if I treat it like I treat TMS pain?
Similarly, I had TMS pain in my hands in 2004 and I have recovered to about 85%. In 2004, I stopped using my hands and my hands became so tight that I could barely move them. They were more like claws than hands. I have since recovered from that bout of TMS using Sarno's methods, but my hands have remained incredibly tight and I can't move my fingers in the full range of motion. If I treat that inflexibility like it was TMS pain, will it go away? Or should I start doing range of motion and flexibility exercises for my hands to return the full range of motion?
If you have experience with inflexibility and stiffness in either your hands, feet, or in general then please give me your advice.
Many Thanks!
Brantross
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Monte
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Posted - 08/18/2009 : 09:24:02
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Flexibility and stretching will help you in these areas.
However, and this is a big huge however. While you are engaged in this type of stretching keep your focus/attention on your breathing and counting seconds that you are in the stretch. Just stay very mindul and out of any physical treatment thinking.
You want to stay completely out of the tms strategy, so do not use the stretch as a treatment that is fixing your symptom. You do not want to get caught analyzing this as a treatment and is it working.
Also talk to yourself, reaffirm that you know what is going on with this disorder...you know that cause is psychological factors.
The absolute best thing you can engage in is some type of power yoga. There is tons of stretching but all of the focus is on breathing, holding locks, counting, and keeping your balance. --When you do all of that it is impossible to be in the tms distraction strategy.
Hope this helps,
Monte
www.runningpain.com |
Edited by - Monte on 08/18/2009 09:29:06 |
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Stiffness, Flexibility, Stretching and TMS
