Healthy Habits and Remedial Movements.

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Balance is at the core of health.
Reflecting on our early education, we could have used information to help us to understand:

-Our ongoing relationship with gravity and our 'built-in' apps for maintaining balance.
and
-How to respond to pain.

Had we understood these foundational components, we would have had more opportunities to make healthy choices as we navigated life. 
My goal is to fill in some of those gaps.
 
Dis-ease can be understood as an accumulation of stressful imbalances.
 
The focus here is the muscular system.

These videos serve as repetitive 'Healthy Habit De-Stressors' to aid in returning major muscle groups towards balance.
I suggest learning and repeating these remedial movements throughout your day within 15-30-second intervals.

Repetitive de-stressing...what a great idea.
Balance is at the core of health.
The body has an enhanced opportunity to utilize its self-repair abilities when not repetitively preoccupied, trying to reestablish core balance.
One of the primary goals within Taum's approach to Corrective Massage is to establish, encourage, and maintain the body's core balance.
"I hope you find this information serves you."
Foundational guidelines

Foundational principles:

  • The human body has an innate ability to ‘repair and maintain’ itself.
  • When presented with pain and/or dysfunction, it is presumed this natural ability has been compromised via trauma, adaptation, repetitive stress, etc.
  • This innate ability is greatly influenced by the state of balance within the core musculature.
  • The compromises are often the result of muscular/soft tissue imbalances. (spasm, adhesion, distortion…)
  • By maintaining core balance, the body can get back to fixing and maintaining itself.
  • Corrective work throughout the body has an enhanced opportunity to last when one's core is balanced.
The Fundamentals of Corrective Massage
 

 A Holistic approach.

It serves to remember that we, as therapists, do not heal anything.
We recognize, respect, and support the body's amazing ability to heal itself.

 

  Corrective Massage recognizes the importance of balanced relationships and interactions throughout the body's soft tissues*. These relationships include natural anatomical positions and functionally balanced movement.

  Functional balance implies that our soft tissues are working harmoniously to support pain-free, healthy movement and function. 

  In Taum's world of Corrective Massage, considering all bodily movement as an orchestration of soft tissue relationships is a fundamental principle and starting point.
These foundational principles include familiarity with Equilibrium and Homeostasis. AKA Balance.

For example: Walking initially appears to be a simple activity. It actually involves a complex orchestration of numerous soft tissues.

A symphony of movement:

Our body requires over 200 of our 600 muscles to take one step. Of those 200, many serve as compensating adapters working in the background to keep us upright as we walk. While all our weight is on the right foot, those background muscles are adapting and counterbalancing so we do not fall over.

Each and every soft tissue plays a vital role in the body's ability to move and adapt to unbalanced tensions. 

Our bodies can adapt to those tensions. 

But only so far... 

Limping is an example of crossing the adaptation line.

  Pain serves as an alert that unbalanced tension has exceeded the body's ability to adapt, and corrective therapy is required.

  The foundational focus of this unique therapy is to interpret the alert and then identify and correct the soft tissue tensions and imbalances that have created those alerts.

  Corrective massage has repeatedly proven to be an efficient and effective method to reduce and relieve pain. 

I hope this information serves you and those you serve.

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*Muscles, tendons, ligaments, membranes, and viscera.