Balance the Body. Relieve the Pain.

Pain Free Posture MN and Pilates Integration Mind. Body. Spirit. offers a wide variety of programming to suit your needs. 

• Do you have recurring pain in any part of your body?

 

• Have you sought out treatment for chronic pain only to have health care providers look only at the immediate "source of the pain" or whatever is hurting, but not above or below the injury location?

 

• Have doctors, chiropractors, massage or physical therapists only been able to offer solutions such as rest, surgery, manipulation, muscle relaxants, or pain killers for your pain with limited or no success?

People develop movement habits in their day to day lives.  These movement habits, or postures become patterns of repetitive behavior.  Postural patterns occur because we move in similar movement patterns throughout our day.  Your posture might feel "right" or natural, but it may not at all be neutral (balanced or loaded correctly).

For many people, the PAIN you are experiencing now is the result of a series of small events: - old injures - poor posture habits - dysfunctional movement patterns - lack of daily exercise or gross motor movement.  Combined as a whole these small events accumulate into the real reason you are having pain.

The cumulative effect of old injuries, chronic poor posture, dysfunctional movement patterns, muscle and joint adaptations cause constant muscle and joint stress. Because the body must balance itself anyway possible to allow for activities of daily living, and because loose joints move before a stiff joint, the chain of the body's motion follows the path of least resistance. This is why, over time, posture worsens and body stress increases as the body gets better at moving with adaptive posture & body motion patterns.

Poor posture and motion patterns cause muscle imbalance, joint stress and more poor motion. It is these changes in posture & motion cause real physical change and breakdown in the body.  Muscles become chronically tight.  Ligaments stretch. Joints wear. Ultimately, the chronic muscle spasm, and spine and joint alignment shifts and damage occurs.  Thus describes the pain problem, a vicious cycle of unbalanced motion - causing breakdown - causing more unbalanced motion.  Over time, the cumulative stress of unbalanced adaptive posture and motion results in muscle imbalance and joint wear.

Deb Preachuk is a Certified Posture Alignment Specialist and Affiliate Instructor from Egoscue University^®.  Posture Alignment therapy is a simple yet profoundly effective program designed to treat musculoskeletal pain without drugs, surgery, or manipulation.  The Egoscue method is a process which involves a series of stretches and corrective exercises designed specifically for each client.

This process strengthens and stretches muscles, restores joint mobility and function and brings the body back to its proper alignment and functioning the way it was designed—pain free.

In the next mind-body continuum step, Pilates Integration Mind.Body.Spirit offers STOTT Pilates instruction.  Deb Preachuk a restorative pilates specialist and is trained in all the Pilates equipment including matwork, reformer, cadillac, chair, barrels and injuries and special populations.

STOTT Pilates is often referred to as the "Ivy League" school of pilates.  Deb has been educated with a depth of knowledge and practical programming options allowing her to effectively teach group and private clients of all ages and fitness levels.  From post-rehabilitative patients to elite competitive athletes, Deb has successfully taught the continuum and is in high demand as an instructor.

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