IN THIS ISSUE

2. My Stretching Blueprint introduces Active Isolated Stretching

3. Top suggestions from subscribers for new courses

4. Creation of new learning platform: Relieving That Pain Online Courses

1. FREE preview of course content for correcting The RALF Pattern

The RALF Pattern is characterized by:

• Dysfunction of the primary hip flexors (psoas and iliacus muscles, or iliopsoas)
• Some muscles being locked short
• A functional leg-length difference
• Some muscles being locked long, or strained

If you believe you are suffering from The RALF Pattern (Right Anterior, Left Fixed Pelvic Torsion Pattern), try these basic steps and see if you can gain some relief:

1. Stop all deep stretching of the RIGHT psoas and RIGHT hamstrings
The right psoas and right hamstrings tend to be LOCKED LONG, or strained, in The RALF Pattern. Therefore the strain is often worsened by deep stretching of these muscles.

2. Focus on deep stretching of LOCKED SHORT muscles
Two muscles which tend to be LOCKED SHORT in The RALF Pattern include the LEFT hip flexors and the LEFT hamstrings.

3. Focus on counter-rotation of the pelvic imbalance
This is accomplished in a lunge position which also stretches the LEFT hip flexors.

You can preview two partial lessons from my upcoming postural correction course here...

PREVIEW 2 PARTIAL LESSONS HERE
Password: feelbetternow

PLEASE NOTE that these are partial lessons from a comprehensive protocol and therefore are not intended to be a complete solution for The RALF Pattern in and of themselves. However, it is possible to experience some relief using them, even if it’s preliminary relief.

2. My Stretching Blueprint introduces Active Isolated Stretching

If you’ve ever put a muscle on a static stretch and held it there for 20-30 seconds or longer you’ve no doubt felt this reflex: it’s like the muscle is fighting back against you, quivering and trembling. That’s the protective reflex doing its job.

But when we’re trying to reset the resting length of a muscle, we need for this protective reflex NOT to get activated. That’s where Active Isolated Stretching comes in. This method achieves the feat of NOT activating the protective stretch reflex.

Because one of the foundations for relieving chronic pain is identifying locked short msucles in the body and improving flexibility, I decided that a solid introduction to Active Isolated Stretching needed to be available right away.

So my new course, Stretching Blueprint For Pain Relief and Better Flexibility (Abridged Version), is scheduled for release on May 31 and will be hosted by the UDEMY learning platform.

I am putting this course on UDEMY because my new learning platform is not yet up and running. I decided to put an Abridged Version on UDEMY because one surrenders a good deal of control by using their platform.

The Full Unabridged Version, will soon follow, however, on Relieving That Pain Online Courses. I hope to have it up and running inside a couple of weeks.

3. Top suggestions from subscribers for new courses

1. A course for relieving sacroiliac joint pain
2. A course for dealing with rounded shoulders and upper back pain
3. A course for addressing hand and arm pain and dysfunction

#1 and #2 will, in fact, be addressed in my upcoming course for resolving postural distortion (correcting The RALF Pattern and The H-FLEX Pattern), set to be released in June 2020.

I plan to address #3 with a free mini-course also to be released in June 2020.

If you have an idea for a course, please don’t hesitate to email me and let me know your thoughts! You can reach out to me directly at:

stephen@relievingthatpain.com

4. Creation of new learning platform: Relieving That Pain Online Courses

I am building a whole new Wordpress website and, I’m not going to lie: it’s a steep learning curve.

However, I’m glad I’m doing it because it will give me MUCH greater flexibility to offer content to my subscribers and to the public at large however I choose to.

Also I’m planning on using the new platform to consolidate. Right now I’m operating with three entities:

Lower-Back-Pain-Answers.com
I started this website in 2004 as an information source for those seeking infomation about pain and pain relief they weren’t able to find elsewhere.

PainReliefVermont.com
This is the website of my private practice, for in-person appointments (pre-COVID-19) and current online consulting.

Relieving That Pain Online Courses (no yet live)
This is my soon-to-be-released online learning platform and blog. This is where I will host the lion’s share of my courses and where I hope to consolidate everything going forward into the future.

Okay, thanks for reading to the end if you made it this far!

Going forward when you hear from me it will be from either of two sources:

Stephen@lower-back-pain-answers.com
Stephen@relievingthatpain.com

Please stay safe out there!