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The 3 R's of Chronic Pain Relief

June 11, 20242 min read

The 3 R's of Eliminating Chronic Musculoskeletal Pain

Hey, how you doing and today's concept are the three R's to restorative training. So when you’re doing restorative training you need to have 3 components that we call the three R's. We’ll talk about those today and how each contributes to the overall concept of restorative training. 

  1. Restore: Alright restore. This is where you’re likely going to use a specialist to work with you on the table in alleviating tissue restriction and helping to re-engage lost neuromuscular coordination and engagement patterns to return the body to balance.

So that's what you're going to do there. 

For us, we're going to work on the table to try and restore enough proper movement to- give you tangible momentum toward fluid, centered, and strong movement.

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  1. Retrain: Alright and then the second part, this is our retrain part. This is where you need to learn those techniques and strategies that you need to develop yourself know posturally core stabilization you know coordination all that kind of stuff that has to be active.

So that's where we're going to teach you that both in the sessions and in the app. So both of those are excellent teaching tools and you know we'll complement each other very well.

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  1. Reinforce: And then we have reinforce. And these are little things that we might have you do. They might be a little tiny exercises that you do kind of on a regular basis outside of like a training session. So, they are of a less intense nature.

They may be something you do throughout the day or they might be certain implements that you wear or put on. An example may be the, uh postural t-shirt that we have here. Excellent tool and I love this one and we have a plethora of these uh to offer you. We don’t sell these or have any financial interest. They are just good ways of helping the body hold onto the new function. They reinforce the new pattern so that you don't experience the regression patterns in between the restoration and retraining. We want to keep those from happening. So this is what reinforces for. 

So anyway those are the three R's. Thank you very much and I will talk to you on the next one.

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Jason Root, MS, CSCS, c-EIM

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