Don't Make These Mistakes

My name’s Nick Williams, I am a massage therapist, yoga teacher and personal trainer. In the 10 years I’ve been helping people with limited mobility and muscle pain rebuild a full pain-free range of motion, I see the same mistakes over and over again. If you want to get back to feeling healthy and normal, here are three traps you need to avoid.

Waiting for it to get better

Doing nothing might feel safe, but as the saying goes ‘Those who rest, rust.’ While you sit and do nothing your muscles atrophy and connective tissue dry out, leaving your weaker and less mobile.

Doing nothing and trying to stay safe is like building a house without a roof and hoping it never rains. The safe strategy is to plug the weak links and strengthen your muscles and joints, not to hope an accident never happens.

Patch up pain with temporary treatments

Pain killers, spa treatments, and procedures like steroid injections only cover up the symptoms without addressing the underlying issues of dysfunctional movement patterns and an exhausted nervous system. Pain is the body’s way of signaling that something is wrong and needs to be changed. Instead of blocking out pain, the safe solution is to retrain range of motion that doesn't cause injury.

Pushing Through the Pain

Gritting your teeth and pushing through the pain can be as bad as doing nothing at all. When people injure themselves exercising or at work it’s often because they engage in high impact or repetitive movements without first addressing issues that prevent good body mechanics. This is a recipe for an overuse injury.

Myofascial Release Library

Stopping muscle spasms and regaining a pain-free range of motion is the first step in making your body strong, flexible and resilient to injury.

The course is a step-by-step guide to releasing painful muscle knots in every part of the body using the same principles I apply when doing bodywork. With some simple tools and a little know how, you can enjoy the same results without the expensive treatments, time consuming appointments or the awkwardness of letting a stranger touch you.

Backed up by science

Muscle knots (or myofascial trigger points) are notoriously tricky to study. But even  though the current science doesn't agree on HOW they form, years of investigation confirms that skillfully applied pressure is effective at relieving pain and improving range of motion.