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Overcoming Chronic Pain Without Surgery Part TWO: More Tissue Therapy: And Buzz Williams Speaks
Denying or trying to pretend pain doesn’t hurt only pisses us off.
3 min read6 days ago
Ray had nothing to lose.
As we described last week, he’d been to a dozen specialists, all confirming the same thing: “There’s nothing wrong.”
Sure, he’d had all the images, even a few dark spots that could account for discomfort. But Ray wasn’t experiencing the pain we attribute to a tweak or simple pull. Ray was chronic, and with or without a reason, he’d been that way for far too long.
After first confirming that Ray’s pain was very much real, he made the choice to do something about it. No more passive care. No more hoping. No more patient.
Once Ray decided to be an athlete, we got to work on part two: Hypervigilance.
What is Hypervigilance?
Imagine you just dropped a pencil.
