When a person gets injured, they learn that they must protect the injury to avoid pain. That's fine as long as there is an injury to protect. But after tissue has healed, to continue to protect the area just adds tension to the muscular system, distorts movement, and leads to pain and limitation. The result is shooting pains, spasms, and soreness. Since habitual cringing is a learned action, a learning-based approach is necessary for complete recovery from injury.
Somatic education involves learning to control our own body.
It is just that which is needed to release the cringing response. The approach primarily discussed in this website, Hanna Somatic Education, has clinical methods specifically suitable for complete recovery from injury, in just the terms discussed in this article. This article may be reproduced only in its entirety.