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I’m a person who’s lived with chronic pain my whole life.

And recently, a couple years ago, I decided to address the chronic pain I was living with, stop living on Advil, and start making the changes that I had to make to make my self better.

So I receive a minimum of ninety minutes of bodywork a week from James Dickson. We’ve been working together now for two years.

I had L4 and L5 disc herniations that were leading to bilateral leg pain that went all the way down to my ankles.

Now that I’m getting massaged on a regular basis my leg pain has become intermittent, and my back pain greatly reduced.

One of the thing’s that I’ve appreciated working with James is that his knowledge of anatomy and physiology. He’s able to show me and teach me the origin and insertions of the muscles, how they are supposed to function, and when they are compromised. He can provide me with that education. He does a lot of range of motion and muscle testing with me so I get an immediate visual feedback loop of where I’m stuck, and then offers me exercises to do during the week to help unravel and change this pattern that I have going.

The most unusual thing that I’ve had to deal with through bodywork has been painful intercourse that I started experiencing after my son was born. James was able to figure out that during the birth process my labia had been traumatized, and that a huge amount of adhesion had built up around that nerve, and there was one area that constantly would tear when I would try to have intercourse with my husband. James did one session and broke down this adhesion and now I’m completely pain free. Which has been a huge change in my life and a huge benefit to my marriage and my sex life. I feel really grateful that I was willing and able to talk with him about this and that he could address this for me. I felt really comfortable talking to him about it, and he knew what to do about it. If this had fixed for me when my son was born it would have changed the last twenty-two years of my life in a very significant way.

One of the other big benefits of getting message on a regular basis, is that I find that when I get massaged I'm able to go inside and look around and get more information about what’s going on in my body, and I’ve been able to take that information and translate out it into my daily life. Now I have a better daily awareness and perspective on what I'm doing, how I'm doing it, and what the result of the action is going to be.

I’m learning how to re-pattern myself; the way I move, the way I stand. I know full-well at this point what my pattern is, and what it needs to be, in order to stop creating the chronic imbalances and painful conditions that I’m living with.