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Guiding Principle II: Stiffness IS pain

Stiffness IS pain - What am I talking about? I stumbled across this observation whilst assessing range of movement in a patient's neck many years ago. For no apparent reason I decided to interpret the location where the patient was describing…

Guiding Principle I: Chronic pain is an intelligent messenger

Chronic pain is intentional and intelligent. Conventional wisdom considers pain to almost always be caused by some kind of breakdown in the body's machinery. As such, pain is typically considered to be a direct result of a 'fault' in…