Many of people’s chronic pain problems arise from their body mis-alignment due to their daily activities and lifestyles. If you’re one of the millions who suffer from chronic backache, stiff joints, knee pain, shoulder and neck pain and stiffness, or other forms of long term pain, Karen Harris, Posture Alignment Therapy can help you help yourself out of discomfort, and free you from pain rooted in a misaligned body.
Karen Harris qualified as a fitness trainer back in 1993 and has also since specialised in nutrition and weight management and barefoot training.
But it is her other specialism, in Egoscue Posture Alignment Therapy, a holistic treatment that focuses on a total body diagnosis and giving the client the knowledge and tools to help themselves.
“Knowing why something hurts, how it affects other parts of the body and what to do about it is very empowering, and enables clients to re-establish natural movement freeing themselves from nagging, debilitating pain,” Karen adds.
Her own husband is one of them.
Karen says: “He had two herniated discs and he was told, in his late 30s, that if he didn’t have surgery he would be in a wheelchair in 10 years. I was sure that there had to be something else that wasn’t invasive. Egoscue Posture Alignment Therapy caught my eye and turned out to be that ‘something’. I started giving him the exercises, and he improved really well; he is now in his mid-50s and his back is absolutely fine.”
That led Karen to become a certified Egoscue Posture Alignment Specialist and takes referrals from massage therapists, osteopaths, chiropractors and other body workers.
Issues from poor posture can arise from many things; poor work practices, incorrect habitual patterns of movement, lack of movement, and even sports that concentrate on movements from one side of the body. Repetitive movements lead to the body making subtle compensatory movements which become habitual and lead to chronic pain, including not just muscular aches and strains but conditions such as carpel tunnel syndrome, tennis or golfer’s elbow, plantar fasciitis, migraine and sciatica. Persistent compromised movement can affect not only the musculoskeletal system but also all round health including breathing, circulation, digestion, nerve and sleeping problems.
Crucially, the part of the body that hurts may be a very different part to the one which is causing the problem. Many popular treatments focus on treating the symptom, but Egoscue Posture Alignment Therapy treats the body as one synergistic whole. A comprehensive assessment sets out to find the underlying causes of the pain. Karen says: “Generally, the point of the pain is a symptom and not necessarily where the problem is! What I do is like being a body detective, finding out exactly where the issue lies and then giving a personalised programme of therapeutic exercises. These help to correct the body’s alignment back to its original blueprint design so pain is eliminated.
“The process is a mutual journey for people who are prepared to take responsibility for their own health and keep themselves pain-free without having to source ‘treatment’.”
For people unable to visit Karen’s clinic, the therapy can be given online by means of Zoom, FaceTime or other platforms.
Visit www.karen-harris.co.uk to find out more and read what delighted clients have to say.
