Egoscue Commentary: Pain Free: Chapter 2

This continues my summary and commentary on the literature put out by the Egoscue Method

'Pain Free' by Pete Egoscue.

Chapter 2: The body's design: a first-class mechanism battered by second-class treatment

Well, the title says it all, doesn't it! The chapter begins with a sad story of an overzealous surgery performed on someone with a mild muscoskeletal injury with detrimental consequences. I will not reveal more.

Pete terms such medical abuse as "high-tech pain killing at its worst" (p. 19). He continues that "we've become so intoxicated by modern tools and techniques that we are casually sacrificing the body's most indestructible and vital mechanisms" (p. 19). Remember, you need to use the right tools to treat appropriate injuries.

Pain is, again, presented as an alarm system. If we do not listen, it will lead to a detrimental quality of life. But, we have to be sure to treat the cause, not the effect.

Pete talks about the awesome things that happen when we go for a jog. It is much more than muscular activity or calorie burning. The entire organism: the lungs, the nervous system, the endocrine system all work to get that body running. If you stop running you not only burn less calories, you stop training all your systems.