On Hanna Somatic Education to Eliminate Sacroiliac Joint Pain and Related Symptoms (Sacroileitis)

 

Clinical Somatic Education to Eliminate Sacroiliac Joint Pain and Related Symptoms

Let me shed some light on the somatic approach, Clinical Somatic Education, which may be unfamiliar to you, due to its relative newness.

Clinical somatic education stands as a health discipline developed on a different foundation from conventional therapies. Its primary objective is to alleviate pain and relieve stress.  Sometimes, it's used in conjunction with standard therapies, but most often, it is applied, by itself.

Rather than focusing on manipulation, stretching and strengthening, clinical somatic education focuses on normalizing the brain's control of movement, muscular tensions, and posture, disrupted by injury. This normalization of muscle tone leads to muscular relaxation, loosening of joints, and the cessation of nerve pain -- the hoped-for result of strengthening, stretching, and manipulation,

What sets this approach apart is its utilization of a completely different technique that initiates a transformation at the brain level. By altering muscular activity through this method, the body becomes distinctly self-correcting, allowing for long-lasting improvements.

In summary, clinical somatic education offers a groundbreaking path to pain relief and improved mobility, providing results that differ significantly from standard therapies.

The main technique used in Clinical Somatic Education is called, pandiculation.

Pandiculation: The Direct and Natural Way to Change Movement Memory and Pelvic Shape

Let me share with you some information about pandiculation, a fundamental action pattern observed in all creatures with a backbone.

This innate action is exceptionally well-suited for the purpose of normalizing muscle/movement memory and addressing the forces that govern the shape of the pelvis and position of the sacrum. 

By engaging in pandiculation, you actively participate in resetting and reestablishing a harmonious relationship between your muscles, movement patterns, and overall bodily alignment.

Similar to yawning, pandiculation plays a crucial role in restoring balance to muscular tension, enhancing mobility, and reclaiming physical comfort.

Watch and listen:

 

DOES STRETCHING "ONE BETTER"

 

Everyone has experienced pandiculation in everyday life -- albeit not in the systematic manner employed in clinical somatic education.

It's a natural behavior observed in creatures with a backbone, including our feline and canine friends, horses, and even birds. 

It occurs when an animal arises from a state of rest.  You've seen what people call, "yawning and stretching".  While some may refer to it as "stretching," it is important to note that pandiculation is not stretching.

It's more like a clearing or de-bugging software -- something like anti-virus software -- or re-booting your movement system (something like [CONTROL][ALT][DELETE].  It's a re-set.

Its primary function is to restore your innate ability to relax and to move freely, to make you ready to go from rest into action. 

Pandiculation is fundamentally distinct from therapeutic or athletic stretching techniques -- offering a unique way to unlocking tension and improved bodily coordination.

In clinical somatic education, we use it to correct movement alterations and alleviate the pain associated with most injuries.

Pandiculation stands as the simplest and most effective method for reprogramming muscles and movement.  Unlike traditional stretching, it directly influences movement memory, bringing about comfortable and usually immediate and lasting changes.  

As I mentioned earlier, the involvement of muscles and the distortion of pelvic shape are intertwined:  "bones go where muscles pull them." Clinical somatic education addresses the nervous system, muscular system, and skeletal alignment.

Pandiculation unlocks muscle/movement memory, allowing for adjustments in movement and posture that are outside the usual capacity of a person with an injury.  It restores comfortable freedom of motion.

This unlocking is a prerequisite for any subsequent movement training to be its most effective.

Following the unlocking process (Unit 1 of the program), you do action patterns utilizing pandiculation to further normalize movement memory (Units 2 and 3). 

As the pelvis gradually reshapes and the sacrum finds a healthier position, symptoms dissipate.  

Remember, "bones go where muscles pull them."

While this explanation is an oversimplification, it captures the essence of how clinical somatic education brings about transformative results.

Once unlocking and repatterning have taken place, individuals can confidently engage in various activities, including strenuous ones, knowing that those activities are now safe, for them to do.

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TO SUMMARIZE: Compression and twisting forces at the S-I joints that occur in injury situations compress the S-I joints, strain the pelvic ligaments, trigger reflexive muscular contractions throughout the body and cause muscle and cause radiating nerve pain (that may be mistaken for spasm) -- symptoms that never let up.

Sacroiliac Joint Dysfunction, also known as Sacroiliac Pain Syndrome, encompasses a complex array of symptoms that defies direct therapeutic intervention at the locations where symptoms appear.  Instead, symptoms disappear as the position of the sacrum straightens.

The best solution lies in the body straightening itself and maintaining the straightened position of the sacrum, through normal movement memory. 

Once the sacrum realigns with the rest of the pelvis, the pain of Sacroiliac Joint Dysfunction is over.