Useful Words in Body Work:

Enhanced Communication

NOTICE:

These are my own definitions based on how therapists and clients typically use them. By reading this and booking with me you are by no means expected to know everything here.

My goal is to make it easier to talk about new and possibly strange sensations you may experience during any given body working session.

  • Intensity:

  • How strong any given sensation is.

  • “My left shoulder pain feels more intense that the right”

  • “With more pressure that knot feels more intense”

  • Sensation:

  • Pressure, Vibration, Texture, Itch, Tickle, Softness, Temperature, Movement, Sharpness, Scratchy, Balance.

  • Significant:

  • May be used to describe and identify all areas/points of intense sensation.

  • “Whoa! THAT spot is significant!”

  • “I can’t tell yet if that’s good or bad, but it’s significant, for sure.”

  • Referred Pain:

  • Describes the phenomena of Good Pain appearing in a distant part of the body when a trigger point is pressed and brought to a significant intensity.

  • Feels like a "Fullness” inside the area with referred pain.

  • Important as resolving this will significantly reduce pain

  • Satisfying and not too much

  • “Good” Pain:

  • An intense sensation that satisfies the irritation inside tight or painful tissue and relieves pain.

  • Found with intensity just below pain threshold

  • “Bad” Pain:

  • An intense sensation followed by the need to withdraw.

  • Causes pain and doesn’t feel productive.

  • Sensation that is beyond the pain threshold

  • Positive Adjectives:

  • A Good Pain, satisfying, significant, fullness, relieving, moving, settling, changing, calming, softening

  • Negative Adjective:

  • A Bad Pain, sharp, pokey, burning, too deep, electric, twangy, rushed, rough, shooting, numbing, “Too Much”