Shelly Prosko PT, C-IAYT Profile picture
Physiotherapist, Yoga Therapist, clinician, educator, author, student, pioneer of PhysioYoga. Integrating yoga, science, compassion in healthcare. I 🧡dancing.
Apr 7, 2022 9 tweets 4 min read
"the factors that initiate pain are typically different from the factors that maintain it. And the factors that maintain it are separate from the consequences of living with pain"
.@Farmer_MindBody

wide ranging convo w .@CorKinetic 1/
bit.ly/3xakq0A appreciate the view of not pathologizing central sensitization - rather, a form of enhanced/hyper learning for survival - the body adapted exquisitely well; a normal response that hasn't returned to baseline. 2/
Sep 3, 2021 10 tweets 3 min read
Many clinicians & researchers are working hard to integrate science & yoga to enhance & complement contemporary healthcare

We aren’t offering alternative medical approaches

This isn’t pseudoscience

Researchers are dedicated to continually improve quality of yoga research A good place to start to review some of the current literature:

Handbook of Research on Evidence-Based Perspectives on the Psychophysiology of Yoga and Its Applications

I co-authored a chapter on yoga and pain care:

igi-global.com/chapter/clinic…
Aug 15, 2021 7 tweets 4 min read
People with pelvic pain can benefit from whole-person centered, compassionate pain care that includes supported self-care practices

Integrating yoga into pelvic pain care can offer a practical, accessible, evidence-informed, compassionate, whole-person centered approach I'm teaching another live online course on this topic
Sept 20 & 27
bit.ly/2Xuvi9M