Stanton and Moseley (2017) found that chronic muscle pain is often a response from the brain attempting to protect the body from further harm.
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If the thought of stretching in front of strangers or your coworkers makes you cringe, think about how weird it used to be when someone pulled out their phone to take a picture… of themselves. We’ve all embraced the selfie so limbering up in public shouldn’t be a step too far!
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Rachel Fairweather and Megan Mari are world renowned therapists who have developed the BTEC level 6 Professional Diploma in Advanced Clinical Massage and Sports Massage.
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Massage can help create an environment for the brain to “relearn” that the messages sent from nociceptors do not always mean that the body is in real physical danger and does not, therefore, need to continue to create a pain response. This happens on a physical level via interacting with the nervous system using massage techniques but also on a psycho-socio level…
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Many people, therapists included, believe that massage needs to be painful in order to be effective - If the primary objective of a massage is to reduce pain then causing more pain to you, and potentially injury to myself, is surely madness and neither of us will have a positive experience.
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