For years these patients have had a running feud between the pain their body was producing and the mind that was trying to suppress the awareness of this pain. In these patients it is not uncommon to experience significant improvement in their psychological well- being. Trager Psychophysical Integration is easy to do and is fun for both the therapist and patient. The work is very basic. It does require that the therapist be in a state of relaxation.
People today are very much in tune with all that is bigger, better, and faster.
He had seen an orthopedic surgeon in the past who told him that he had a lumbar disc problem. He had been seeing a chiropractor once a week for several years for an adjustment that made him feel better for a few hours. He had had this problem for about five years. It was significant enough that the patient was unable to do the things he liked and was angry about the limitation, but he could function at his job, which was intellectual and required little physical effort. My evaluation indicated that this person exhibited spinal and pelvic movement dysfunction and that any attempt to correct an underlying cause to the pain would be futile without first re-establishing this person's ability to move his spine and pelvis in a free and integrated fashion.