[TurnAround Thursday] No Pain, KNOW Gain original

Hey there, Difference Maker!

Last week I shared how thrilled I am with my new Physical Therapist’s approach with me as it is in alignment with how I’ve worked with children and adults for over forty years now.

How on my first visit, he explained how the “no pain, no gain” served absolutely zero restorative purpose in regenerating my knees.  That it originated with weight lifting and had only one specific purpose for that.

It was never meant to spill over into so many other areas in our lives, like how we use pain inducing tactics to teach behavioral lessons instead of teaching skills.

Give this a moment to sink in:  No Pain, Know Gain

Know Gain.  

The reason why I went to him was because he was trained in Frequency-Specific Microcurrent (FSM).

What is FSM?  It’s a way to relieve pain using very low levels of electrical current. This treatment option can be used on specific tissues in your body to help with pain caused by injuries or medical conditions. (Not the same as a TENS Unit.)

Similarly to how I work with adults who live with, love and work with children, he hooks me up and start running FSM frequency programs to dial off the pain first.

Next, as my knees are relaxing into specific healing vibrational frequencies, he is able to use his PT strategies to help my knees to move in ways that they have not been moving for some time.

Finally, he adds on one new exercise to my program I am to practice daily.  Exercises that build up my muscles and tendons, not traumatize them further.  I am to stop the second I feel the “burn” or any pain whatsoever.

Here’s the thing: The improvements I’m already making in my first month with him are far exceeding all the months of work I’ve done with two other PTs who used, not only the “no pain, no gain” method with me, but used the “push through the pain”  and keep going technique.

This is not childbirth.  This is supposed to be rebuilding not re-traumatizing.

My knees would blow up with inflammation afterwards, I’d ice and heat them, then go back and do it again.

Much the same way we treat kids who struggle with what they are being told to do.

Today’s children are teaching us what we need to know.

Here’s a good way to proceed:

Energy first.  To harmonize with the child, you’ve got to suspend all judgment which will shift the energy between the two of you so you can move them in the direction you want them to go without so much resistance.

Strategies second:

Practice third:

They are blowing past social norms because they literally can’t take the pain of anymore!

And so that’s today’s 30 Second TurnAround!

Reaching out …

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