The Pain Response–New Ways of Thinking
Without a shadow of a doubt, the modern-day circus artist is exposed to high training loads and increasingly competitive and saturated performance calendars. Injuries from circus training and pain associated with them often lead to the inability to train or perform causing physical, emotional and financial stressors.
If the pain response is better understood by circus practitioners, we strongly believe that you can take action to manage it and move forward more successfully. Nobody experiences pain as you do. Your pain experience is individual. It is manufactured by your brain using a variety of inputs namely, proprioception (information from different parts of the body) and cognition (beliefs, memory, feelings, logic). The most important take-away from this blog post is to make you aware that there are many factors that govern your pain response. It’s not a simple electric circuit. This article’s aim is to shed some light on the advances in modern day pain physiology which can help diminish the sense of threat for circus artists. ...Do you have a story to share? Submit your news story, article or press release.