Physical Therapists seem obsessed with pain. They take us to the edge of it and ask us to spend time there. They’re always looking for the place where pain begins, never pushing completely past it, but purposefully, gently circling into it. Moving just to the edge, then backing off, over and over.
Recovering range of motion is tricky business. The process requires us to adopt a new relationship to pain.
Slowly over time, if we give ourselves to the process, capacity expands and we are reinvented.
It’s an out-dated notion that pain is to be avoided at all costs. Pain is the boundary of what currently is, but not necessarily the end of what could be. Time will tell, but time is useless without a willingness to approach the edge.