The Iliopsoas muscle

The Iliopsoas muscle
MrDon

MrDon

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The other day I had some work done on me because of some lower back pain that I have. The person worked on my iliopsoas muscle which given the pain I had, was the right way to go. (at least from my knowledge of all of this). And I know that I have heard a lot of emotional stuff can come up to the surface as a result of this work but have never experienced it, that I am aware of.

However, I think that I may be experiencing this because for some reason since this work was done, I have felt like a distorted ball of emotions and felt very depressed. I know there are other things going on in my life right now which could also be used to explain it, but they just don't match up to what I am feeling. So far I can't find too much on the web about it, but I will continue to look.

Would love to know if anyone else has had any personal experience with this. Maybe what I am experiencing is normal given my past, but it is the first time I have felt it in my life.

Hopefully everyone doesn't think I am too nuts on this but the one thing that I have gained from learning about massage is a sense of what is going on within my body. And right now, it is just kind a freaky feeling and all concentrated in my abdomen which is right where all the work was done.

Don
 
Hey Don - I don't have personal experience with the sort of massage invoking memories but have come across this in patients...it is called "body memories". To make a long explanation short, the touching and manipulating of muscles/nerves (sensory stimulation) can elicit a sensory response from a part of the brain where early memories are stored. This part of the brain archives - objects, images, senses of past experiences (i.e. childhood sexual abuses, etc.) and when those memory senses are stimulated, they push the memory to the surface. I know this is a fast and basic coverage of the subject but explains how you can touch a spot which stimulates the brain memory and experience flashbacks images, flashback feelings, etc.

Hope this helps and I haven't confused you!!

Howard
 
Hey Don... I've had a couple of experiences with body injury/work bringing up emotions and memories. It can be very intense.

I had a massage therapist work on my shoulder after having some pain at work. She finally found a spot that had been aching for some time and producing a lot of pain for me. I just about started crying right there on the table. Not so much for memories or pain, but because I wasn't crazy. There really was this damn spot in my shoulder that a physical therapist and a chiropractor had never been able to find/treat. Afterwards though, when I talked about it in therapy, we did a lot of work around my physical abuse as a child and how my stepdad pulled me by my arms a lot.

More recently, my lower back went out. The pain is excruciating and has happened to me once before. This time that it went out, it brought back all of the memories of the first time which was about 6 or 7 years ago. Everything about that time period came back to me in intense memory... my g/f at the time, my chiropractic visits for it, where I was working at the time, and all of the pain memories were made stronger.

It was really amazing to see how much memory I've stored in my body without realizing it. I guess now I can't think that my therapist is full of s*** when she tries to convince me that I don't have to remember everything consciously but that I need to listen to my body.

Hope this helps.

-Sean
 
And I know we've talked about the body memories in school, and I did my paper on it, but this is the first time that I felt something like this so strong. It really took me flying. Fortunately, I just got back from doing a massage today and it helped calm me and center me. (yes giving massage does that for me).

With reactions like I had from the psoas muscle work, it just fuels my engines to want to learn more about this and work with it. My body has been through enough and although I want to help others work through these things, I know fully that this is a personal endeavor as well.

This link actually explains a little about all of this for the psoas muscle.

https://www.positivehealth.com/permit/Articles/Bodywork/koch65.htm
 
i had a massage that ultimately moved to my face -pressure points and jaw -

i started to breath heavy when it the masseur reache dmy jaw and chomped a lot - i finally started crying because there was a release of emoitions and memories so powerful i had to end the massage -

this massage of my jaw was so strong in it's affect - so yes it has happened to me -
 
Fortunately now things have lessened considerably from what they were through the weekend. I was actually get very scared because I had become very depressed and until this morning, I couldn't put my finger on what was going on. It just really scared me and ever since I was paralyzed several years ago, I get scared easily with things about my body.

But it may also explain another thing that takes place within me. You see, sometimes when my stomach is touched it is very triggering for me and it sometimes can make me feel the same way I felt or even nauseated. I do not know where this comes from to this day but have a feeling it is way back somewhere very young. It is interesting that through the last couple of days, I have found myself "holding" or "guarding" my stomach area as well and didn't realize I was doing it.

Ugh,,, I want a new body! One that hasn't been abused!

Maybe one day I will understand

Don
 
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