INSPIRATION & EDUCATION

The overall state of your central nervous system influences local pain and inflammation and systemic pain and inflammation. If your system is already taxed, overwhelmed, and producing low-grade systemic inflammation throughout the body, you will have a weakened immune system. When new threats arise in another local system, a shoulder or elbow, your body will probably experience more pain, inflammation, and swelling than needed for the repairs.

If you have had an acute respiratory illness, such as COVID, pneumonia, or just a cold with a bad cough, or a chronic respiratory illness, asthma, allergies, or throat irritating GERD, do a self-check-in with the muscles mentioned in this post.

To heal, you are thinking of reshaping your tissues, stretching and building strength, creating muscle balance in the jaw and neck. But you are also tapping into your nervous system; you are diving into the most important aspect of healing; allowing your nervous system to come to a place of rest. From a place of rest, the nervous system turns down pain signals. I know for sure: women who do these postures, and allow themselves to come to a place of healing rest, report chr

Understanding the function of the scalene muscles is vital to understanding your neck and jaw pain. It can also be vital in understanding your upper thoracic spine pain, rib pain, and shoulder pain.

Need relief from TMJ Pain, Neck Pain, and Pelvic Floor Pain? Find out what women say about the manual therapy offered by Tara Lee Clasen.