5/05/2012

Pain Series: Part 6

We all have limits. Some clients, for a variety of reasons, do not have pain/pressure limits. There have been instances when I have told a client that I will not go any deeper. There have been a handful of clients where I am working on trigger points with my thumbs, then knuckles, then forarms, then elbows, and finally my TP tool. Then with my 100 and some pounds of weight and force behind the work it is still not enough. I try to decipher why asking questions about pain medication, an acute injury etc. I will sometimes not go deeper because it will exacerbate a current injury, or damage tissue because the client is not perceiving the pressure correctly. Then here are instances where there is simply no reason for the pressure perceptions to be off and I simply do not have the strength to go any deeper. They usally do nto come back and that is alright. In that instance I would suggest going to a Trager or Shiatsu Therapist.