Welcome

by Jonathan



Hi there, and welcome to LifeAfterPain.com

To get started, download our free Trigger Point Manual.  You’ll find out the real reasons why you get triggers – and then  the following email series shows you what you can do to get rid of them – long term.

And if there’s something you want to discuss, just leave a comment below any of the articles – this site is all about learning and sharing knowledge, so I’d very much like to hear what you think.

All the best,
Jonathan

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What is the Best Treatment for Frozen Shoulder?

by Jonathan


Frozen shoulder is a strange and often misdiagnosed problem. It’s very different from a rotator cuff injury, and so the treatment for it is again quite different.

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Avoiding Back Pain – How to Make Your Office Healthier to Work In



“Go into cubeland in a tightly controlled corporate environment and you immediately sense that there is a malaise about being tied behind a computer screen seated all day. The soul of the nation is sapped, and now it’s time for the soul of the nation to rise.” Dr. Levine You don’t need me to tell [...]

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The Hazards of Sitting in 90 Degree Chairs



While chairs in various forms have been around for almost as long as humans have, sitting for hours on a 90 degree chair is a fairly recent development. And it’s becoming increasingly clear that it’s not a good development. In terms of back pain, buttock pain and the human hip joint 90 degree chairs are [...]

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Alexander Technique Principles – Process vs Outcome



How do you use your body? Are you focused on what you are doing – or how you are doing it? This is an interesting philosophy to grasp. Most people forget about posture and instead focus on what they are doing. That’s how you end up with people driving awkward positions, hunched over computers and [...]

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Alexander Technique – Effortless Posture



What is most people’s idea of good posture? Unfortunately, it’s often the head up, shoulders back military style. This  stiff upright posture is tiring to maintain and easy to slouch out of. In Alexander Technique, good posture has one defining characteristic – it’s effortless. And this is a crucial part of how one of our [...]

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Alexander Technique, Tense Shoulders and the Startle Pattern



Could a primeval reflex be causing you neck pain? The answer is yes – but you’re likely to be completely unaware of it. This a clip from a video I shot with the fantastic Grant Dillon - a friend and Alexander Technique teacher in Auckland. There are instinctive responses we humans have – reflexes that have come [...]

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End of the Road Trigger Point Pain



I often see people who’ve reached the end of the road in terms of chronic pain. They’ve tried every other test, treatment and diagnosis to get to the bottom of what’s causing their problem. And sometimes – the answer to what’s giving them severe, unremitting pain – is trigger points. The problem is that trigger [...]

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Osteoarthritis – the Good News



What many people who get diagnosed with osteoarthritis don’t know is that it can mean different things. It depends where you get the arthritis – ie what joint. Many people who show a lot of wear and tear in their joints have no pain. So the fact that you have arthritis does not necessarily mean [...]

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How a Stubborn Soccer Player Changed How we Think About Healing



This is slightly counter intuitive – but once you think it through it makes perfect sense. How you use your body when you’re recovering from surgery will have a big effect on how your scar turns out. It’s known as ‘relative rest’ and runs counter to the old ‘lie in bed and don’t move’ form [...]

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Supposed to vs Is



Kiting at Kariotahi New Zealand On the subject of activities you love doing, for me that sport is kite surfing. Now, from the outside, kite surfing is slightly more extreme than golf, but since it’s all done in water, it’s a relatively safe sport. But it does have its frustrations – mostly around waiting for the right kind of [...]

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