Rest, resiliency, and retiming the body

摘要

Lack of movement variability and the precipitous rise of sedentary postures have resulted in an increase in evolutionary mismatch conditions such as low back pain, heart disease, fallen arches, obesity, etc. (Lieberman, 2013). Phillip Beach, DO describes our modern shift away from spending time resting on the floor and from experiencing our physical environment through the sense of touch of the important sensory organs such as our bare feet (Beach, 2010). This echoes the work of Vladimir Janda, MD who taught that loss of sensory input from the soles of the feet was a primary factor to be addressed in rehabilitation (Janda et al., 2006). We are in fact suffering from sensory blindness due to lack of sensory input from the periphery of the body (called de-afferentation).