Practical Science on Movement and Pain

Easy-to-follow, illustrated lessons on how to move with efficiency and comfort.

For anyone who wants to move better and feel better. Or help others do the same.

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Table of Contents

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Part I: The Science of Moving Better

Chapter 1 Defining Better Movement

          • Coordination
          • Mobility
          • Stability
          • Centration and alignment
          • Division of labor
          • Effiency
          • Relaxtion
          • Rhythm
          • Balance
          • Responsiveness and Variablity
          • Comfort
          • Individuality
          • Summary
          • Caveats

Chapter 2 Learning Better Movement

          • The elements of motor control
          • The active system
          • The passive system
          • The nervous system
          • Sensation
          • Perception
          • Motor commands
          • Summary

Chapter 3 The Brain Maps the Body

 

Chapter 4 Development of Movement

Part II: The Science of Feeling Better

Chapter 5 The Science of Pain

Chapter 6 Movement and Threat: Central Governors

Chapter 7 Movement, Thinking and Feeling

Part III: The Practice of Moving Better and Feeling Better

Chapter 8 Strategies to Move Better and Feel Better

Chapter 9 25 Movement Lessons

        • Guidelines
        • Body scan
        • Lengthening the spine
        • Breathing
        • Flexion extension patterns in quadruped
        • Coordinating the flexors
        • Coordinating the extensors
        • Graph coordinate beside flexors
        • Improving rotation
        • Moving like a barrel
        • Rolling from the back to the side
        • Rolling from the sides of the stomach
        • Releasing the next part one
        • Releasing the next part two
        • Shoulder rotation part one
        • Shoulder rotation part two
        • Shoulder circles
        • Primal hip flexion
        • Improving control of the hip flexion
        • Activating includes
        • Pelvic clock
        • Rolling back to sitting
        • Ruling from the stomach to sitting
        • : Part one
        • Crawling part two
        • Coordinating the foot and ankle
        • Improving the squat
        • Sitting in a chair part one
        • Sitting it chair part two
        • Repetition progression moving on

 

 

 

The brain that’s the body

Neural plasticity

Maps and imagery

Napster built by movement

Naps are blurred by lack of movement

Pain in the body maps

Why do the maps change

Repetition in grooves

A two-stage process

Attention

Novel distraction

Functional relevance

Feedback

Exercise reward and motivation

Summary

 

Motor development and primal patterns

Developmental patterns are building blocks

The value of developmental positions

The value of developmental tasks

Play

Summary

 

P does not equal tissue damage

He is an action signal

Pete protects from perceived threats not actual threat

Input and outputs an example

The physiology of nociception

Primary nociception

Peripheral sensitization

Sent secondary nociception

Central sensitization

Ectopic nociception

The sending modulation

How the brain creates pain

Facilitation of Pedro tags

Imprecise narrow tags

The importance of accurate maps

Bisons effects body health

Sensorimotor mismatch

Summary

Common mechanisms for pain relief

 

Movement in threat: central governors

Threaded strength

Thread inflexibility

Threaded endurance

Thread and motor control

Summary

 

Movement, thinking and feeling

Movement in mood

Motor control and emotional control

Training the focus of attention

The right kind of attention

Into reception and motion

Summary

 

Strategies to move better and feel better

Play

Experimentation

Options versus corrections

Focus of attention

Finding a reference for correctness

Slow gentle movement

Graded exposure

Novelty

Imagery

Functional relevance

Developmental positions

Constraints

Repetition

Woody Payne

Waiting threat

Avoiding fatigue

Summary

 

Lessons a better movement