Lawrence Gold
certified: Rolf Method of Structural Integration, Hanna Somatic Education
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Pain Management, Movement Rehab, conscious evolution Expert
Lawrence Gold Quick Facts
- Main Areas
- musculo-skeletal injuries
- Best Sellers
- Free Your Psoas, Free Yourself from Back Pain, Overcoming the Myth of Aging
- Career Focus
- clinical practitioner, trainer, writer, developer of educational programs
Lawrence Gold's blog: http://lawrencegold.wordpress.com/correct-diagnosis-and-treatment
Lawrence Gold is a long-time practicing clinical somatic educator certified in The Rolf Method of Structural Integration and in Hanna Somatic Education, with two years' hospital rehab center experience (Watsonville Community Hospital Wellness and Rehabilitation Center: 1997-1999) and articles published in The American Jou
al of Pain Management (Pain Relief through Movement Education: January, 1996, Vol. 6, no. 1, pg. 30) and in The Townsend Letter for Doctors and Patients (A Functional Look at Back Pain and Treatment Methods: November, 1994, #136, pg. 1186 ) and in sixteen other print publications.
Free Articles & Book Excerpts
Core Exercises - What is 'Core'?
http://ezinearticles.com/?Core-Exercises---What-is-Core?&id=4295814
Reconditioning Your Back - A New Type of Exercises For Lower Back Pain
http://ezinearticles.com/?Reconditioning-Your-Back---A-New-Type-of-Exercises-For-Lower-Back-Pain&id=4166806
Somatic Therapeutic Exercises - A New Class of Self-Treatment For Musculo-Skeletal Injuries
http://ezinearticles.com/?Somatic-Therapeutic-Exercises---A-New-Class-of-Self-Treatment-For-Musculo-Skeletal-Injuries&id=3816589
Your Psoas Muscles - Understanding Them, Freeing Them and Integrating Them
http://ezinearticles.com/?Your-Psoas-Muscles---Understanding-Them,-Freeing-Them-and-Integrating-Them&id=3815150
Cure TMD-TMJ Syndrome Naturally - Common Methods of Treatment
http://ezinearticles.com/?Cure-TMD-TMJ-Syndrome-Naturally---Common-Methods-of-Treatment&id=3498770
Cure TMD-TMJ Syndrome Naturally - An End to Jaw Clenching Stress TMJ Headaches and Orofacial Pain
http://ezinearticles.com/?Cure-TMD-TMJ-Syndrome-Naturally---An-End-to-Jaw-Clenching-Stress-TMJ-Headaches-and-Orofacial-Pain&id=3498718
Spinal Decompression Therapy and Back Pain
http://ezinearticles.com/?Spinal-Decompression-Therapy-and-Back-Pain&id=2946817
excerpt from Free Yourself from Back Pain
http://www.somatics.com/pdf/Preview2.PDF
excerpt from The Magic of Somatics
www.somatics.com/pdf/somagic,_PREVIEW.pdf
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An Essential Understanding of the Psoas Muscles - - Upgrading the Approach to Tight Psoas Muscles
To begin, let's say that an essential understanding of the psoas muscles means a basic understanding of their function. Basic, in this sense, means easy to understand, and function, in this sense, means more than what they do; it means what they enable you to do. So, this piece presents a simple, easy understanding of what your psoas muscles enable you to do and how tight psoas muscles interfere with your overall movement.
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Where You Can Win Over the Aging Process (and How)
What happens in nearly everybody that leads to chronic pain and stiffness as they age? It's not what you think. People experience the chronic pains, stiffness and loss of freedom of movement attributed to aging as early as their thirties. According to popular opinion and medical science, that is to be expected. Popular opinion and medical science don't say why it is to be expected, except perhaps to blame (without an illuminating explanation) our genes.
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Words on Fitness Walking
Fitness walking is the most accessible exercise for people of all ages. However, as people age, general physical problems tend to crop up - pain, stiffness, joint degeneration and loss of balance. This article undertakes to address those issues and to suggest how people might deal with (correct, not "get used to") them and get the most from a fitness walking program. What interferes with people's staying with any exercise regimen (assuming they're motivated)?
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The Zone of Incomprehensibility
If you've been doing somatic education for any period of time - or any form of education for that matter -- you've observed periods when your clients (or students) appear to have lost comprehension of your instructions. In fact, there have probably been periods either during sessions or during your training when you lost comprehension. I have. We all have. This is normal. You are observing (or experiencing) a place in psychic space I call, "The Zone of Incomprehensibility".
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Correct Diagnosis and Treatment
In contemporary medical practice and in the public mind, there exists a kind of "looseness" between the correctness of a diagnosis and the efficacy of treatment. A diagnosis is sometimes held (by the patient) to be correct or understood by medical science even in the absence of results from treatment.
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How to Self-Relieve Low Back Pain
This article explains how somatic exercises make back pain vanish and why they are probably the fastest, most lasting way to end most back pain. They work not by suppressing symptoms, but by clearing up their underlying cause and the cause underlying that, so that no further damage occurs to your spine "under your radar" (i.e., without your feeling it because of the pain meds you take).
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How Injuries Accelerate Aging
Popular beliefs about aging confuse the effects of genes with those of stress and injury. As a result, people associate pains and stiffness directly with aging, and so believe them to be inevitable. “The thousand natural shocks flesh is heir to” leave their mark in memory. Memory largely guides our behaviors in life, doesn’t it? The rise and fall of tension and relaxation correspond to our responses to circumstances and also to our memories and imaginings.
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An Entirely New Class of Therapeutic Exercises
Most therapeutic exercises used to treat lingering pain from postural stress fall into one of two classes. * strengthening exercises * stretching exercises Another, new class exists, however: * somatic exercises Somatic exercises improve awareness of movement, control of movement, and coordination. While they belong to a different category than strengthening or stretching, somatic exercises accomplish what therapists ordinarily seek through strengthening and/or stretching exercises: both greater strength and greater suppleness.
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Favorite Quotes & Thoughts from Lawrence Gold
We become how we live.
An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure.
The proof of the pudding is in the eating.
The Prime Directive of somatic education (my discipline): Ya gotta wanna ...
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