Part 2 book “Living pain free – Healing chronic pain with myofascial release” has contents: Help yourself out of chronic pain, typical chronic pain conditions, fascial activities, stretches, and exercises, fascia in the wider world. | CHAPTER 9 Help Yourself Out of Chronic Pain Life is the sum of all your choices. Albert Camus In this chapter we explore: • using what you now know about fascia • taking a holistic approach to helping yourself out of chronic pain • ways to improve your fascial health and therefore your whole health. Life events combine to create fascial restrictions that can lead to chronic pain conditions. We each have a unique combination of life experiences, physical injuries and changes, emotional responses and habits. These all come together to create our mental and physical selves. Narrow medical approaches, such as medication and surgery, often do not work for chronic pain conditions. Sometimes they can make matters worse. And often we are told we will just have to live with it. It is therefore up to us to find more holistic solutions to help ourselves. You get to choose I chose to specialize as a myofascial release therapist because, of all the handson therapies I sampled and trained in, myofascial work made the most sense and got the best results. Over many years of treating clients my belief in a holistic myofascial approach to chronic pain has been rewarded again and again as clients who had given up hope or been abandoned by the medical profession have got well again and been able to live pain-free lives. Aside from the handson work itself, what my clients have most valued are: • an explanation about how chronic pain happens • simple ways to help themselves. My intention in writing this book is to share more widely the information and self-help techniques that have most helped my clients. Knowledge is power. Having read as far as here, you already have much more knowledge about the fascinating world of fascia and about how your mind–body really works. You are no longer a passive patient waiting for things to be done to you. You are an empowered individual who can make positive changes that will make a difference to your life from now on. In this book I have .
