Michelle Kohle Registered Massage Therapist
#10 & #20 214 Joseph Okemasis Dr S7M1B1 Saskatoon, SK, Canada

If you can't be at Lead taking classes with us.....the next best thing is class options at our online Pilates studio, the Metta District!!! Start today by downloading your 3 free videos today at mettadistrict.com.

One gold nugget from the pain education literature is this: Pain, your body’s warning system, is not an accurate indicator of tissue damage, but is rather your... brain’s best guesstimate as to how much danger your body is in and how much pain is required to protect it. Just because something hurts doesn’t necessarily mean your body is being harmed. Just like that car alarm outside your window honking and flashing when no one's robbing it, chronic pain is a malfunctioning false-alarm system futilely attempting to protect us even in the absence of physical danger. Thank you, Dr. Rachel Zoffness. https://www.psychologytoday.com//chronic-pain-has-no-known

Remember learning about the acronym RICE for how to treat an injury.....well the newest research is teaching us to use a little PEACE and LOVE. In today's blog, Michelle, one of our Registered Massage Therapists explains more about this new perspective on treating injuries!

This cool mom boss is Michelle, one of our Massage Therapists! She has 3 kids and 1 dog. Michelle loves to travel, camp, hike, garden, and generally be outdoors. Guess where we will find her as soon as the snow melts?!

The spine is an amazing structure but it seems to cause a lot of people trouble. But does it have to? No.... But that requires reframing how you think about your back. Many of the things we know about the spine are relics from the past or just plain wrong. They were ideas that got put out out there by someone because they sounded plausible (i.e. discs slip, backs go out). And then they made their way into our common conceptions about our backs. Your foot doesn’t just pop out of place and it is absorbing huge forces and has more than two dozen joints. Why would it be any different in your back? Seriously, think of all the areas on you that you move, bend, and use with no complaints (or fewer). Chances are you don’t look at your hand and say it’s to weak to carry in groceries. Our back needs 3 things to be healthy: Move It: The body hates static postures. Move, move, move. Change position every 10-20 minutes. Stand up, sit down, take a short walk, get up and do some jumping jacks. Cobra pose, dance, flip someone off, whatever will get you moving. Don’t Shock It: If you are doing something you don’t do often...I’m looking at you snow shoveling, SLOW DOWN. You’re basically doing a full body workout that is incorporating cardio and weight training. You muscle going to fatigue fast. Even yoga can piss your back off if you jump in to fast. It’s a complex structure that needs time to adapt and figure out what you’re asking it to do. Don’t treat your spine like it’s fragile: It is adaptable. And many things you may have believe to be bad for it just aren’t. Flexion, extension, running, dead lifts, the list is huge. You back can do just about anything if you work with it and follow the other suggestions above. Use your back. Or lose your back. P.S. if you’re the weight training type, skip the sit-ups and focus on your glutes, QL, psoas, and back extensors. The six-pack gets all the love, while the back-pack is neglected. Westminster, Colorado #massage #backpain #neckpain #backpack #liftheavythings #movementismedicine #walking #running #hiking