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New Study Shows Pandiculation Relieves Lower Back and Neck Pain Chronic back pain and neck pain are disabling conditions experienced by many people at some point during their lifetimes. A new study published in September 2022 demonstrates the efficacy of using pandiculation to relieve chronic back and neck pain by releasing chronic muscle tension. [...]
You can listen to Sarah's podcast on this topic here: What is pandiculation? Pandiculation is generally defined as the act of stretching oneself and yawning, especially upon waking. However, our automatic pandicular response has far more significance than simply prompting us to stretch and yawn. As you'll learn in this post, pandiculation is [...]
Fix Forward Head Posture with Pandiculation Forward head posture is becoming an epidemic due to constant use of smartphones and computers. When we look downward over and over, the muscles in the front of our neck, our chest, and our abdomen become chronically contracted—and they keep us stuck in forward head posture all the [...]
How Does Fascia Affect Our Pain and Mobility? If you have musculoskeletal pain or mobility issues, you may have been told that your fascia is tight or that you have fascial adhesions. While this may be true, problems with fascia are most often the result of how we're moving and using our body. In [...]
12 Science-backed Ways to Recover From Fibromyalgia Medical Disclaimer: The information in this article is provided for general informational and educational purposes only, and is not a substitute for professional medical advice. Fibromyalgia is a painful, often debilitating condition with many symptoms. The causes of the condition can seem mysterious, so determining a successful [...]
Q&A Video #3: What should I do if I'm cramping up while practicing Clinical Somatics exercises? Transcript of video: Today I'm going to answer the question: What should I do if I'm cramping up when I do the exercises? If you're cramping up when you're practicing Clinical Somatics exercises, it means one of two [...]
Q&A Video #1: What should I do if I feel myself recruiting other muscles? Transcript of video: Today I'm going to answer a question I get pretty frequently from students, which is: What should I do if I feel other muscles engaging while I'm doing a movement? So, when I instruct every movement, I always [...]
How to Relieve Shallow Breathing Chronic stress, posture, and muscle tension can all play a role in developing shallow breathing, also referred to as chest breathing or thoracic breathing. Shallow breathing can contribute to serious medical conditions including anxiety disorders, panic attacks, hyperventilation, shock, asthma, pneumonia, pulmonary edema, and a buildup of carbon dioxide [...]
Is Magnesium Deficiency Contributing to Your Muscle Tension, Pain, or Fatigue? Sometimes, despite all your efforts to release tension and relieve pain with pandiculation, you may get to a point where you feel like something else is going on. There may be some other factor besides learned muscular patterns that's causing your tension and [...]
Full-Body Patterns of Tension That Involve the Iliopsoas As I mentioned in my first article about the iliopsoas, it's important to understand that chronic tension in a single muscle is never the sole cause of a painful condition, habitual posture, or movement limitation. Every posture we adopt and movement we make involves many muscles [...]
