Pain Neuro-Hacker
Hi, I'm Doug Ringwald, and I solve pain with leading edge neuroscience, movement and myofascial trigger point therapy.
I can help you get out of pain and back to your life, and the activities you love.
I've helped 400+ clients become pain-free over the last 12 years, even those that had been failed by prestigious pain and rehab clinics.
I've taught 600+ therapy professionals innovative methods to treat pain.
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The Pain Problem
Unfortunately, there is widespread ignorance in the medical industry regarding pain, and few practitioners and therapists understand the true sources.
That makes it difficult for people to get effective pain solutions.
It is frustrating...to be in pain and not have a clear path forward.
I have been in that place many times myself...before I took the deep dive into pain science.
The Big Secret
Here is the big secret that shouldn't be a secret...
And it might sound shocking but...
Most pain is NOT caused by tissue injury, local inflammation or nerve entrapment.
Most pain is caused by myofascial trigger points in muscles.
82-85% according to the clinical studies.
The great news is that since the cause of most pain is muscular, it can be solved by treating the muscles, non-invasively, with neuromuscular methods and movement.
That is my specialty and focus, treating the muscular sources of pain with innovative methods based on neuroscience, pain neuro-hacking.
And it works spectacularly well; applied in bodywork, self treatment, corrective exercise and yoga.
The Problem Is Not Where The Pain Is
This fools almost everyone.
Trigger points refer pain to distant locations in the body.
The pain source is not where you feel the pain. This is due to how danger signals are upregulated by the nervous system.
Trigger point referral can present as deep pain in joints, or as radiating pain, and is almost always misdiagnosed as joint disease, tendon inflammation or nerve impingement.
Although there is growing awareness of myofascial trigger points in mainstream medicine (hooray!), the understanding and standard treatment methods are still in the dark ages, involving dry needling or lidocaine injections of single muscles.
With Neuro-Hacking, we understand the many possible pain inputs through trigger point networks and functional relationships, track down the sources and treat them all in a single session.
Our methods are state-of-the-art and non-invasive, using neuro-hacks with compression, vibration and specific movements to unlock trigger points and retrain pain-free movement.
3 Ways I Can Help You
Individuals with Pain & Limitation
Lose the pain and regain the range of motion and strength through 1:1 sessions!
In-person sessions consist of mat based bodywork, neural repatterning movement and self treatment instruction. (Aurora, CO)
Online coaching sessions consist of analysis of pain sources, self treatment and neural repatterning movement coaching.
Yoga Teachers & Practitioners
Transform your understanding, practice and teaching of Yoga into a therapeutic powerhouse of focused solutions. Help your students, yourself and your business thrive!
Get started now with our FREE mini course in Neuro-Hacking Yoga!
Bodyworkers & Manual Therapists
Be your clients' hero while working from a place of ease with our revolutionary methods.
Learn to solve pain and movement problems that baffle other therapists, and turbo charge your practice and business!
What People Are Saying...
Dr. Tom Bryant
Chiropractor, Health Solutions
I refer many patients to Doug that need extensive soft tissue work or movement retraining to relieve their pain. He is highly skilled, knowledgeable and very effective.
Anne Connors
Personal Trainer, Fitness Plus
Doug is great! He has helped me and many of my personal training clients. I often refer people to him that are experiencing pain and movement problems. He consistently delivers great results, helps me keep people moving!
Susan Niswander
Competitive Triathlete, Iron Man
When I first came to Doug, I could not move my left shoulder without pain and could not swim. With his help I got out of pain, was able to continue training, and not only finished the Mont-Tremblant IronMan, I won! I could not have done it without him!
Joan Young
Yoga Teacher
Re: Online Course
Such great training! I learned a lot I am already incorporating.
Kathleen A.
LMT
Re: Online Course
It is of the best online courses I have taken. I've been a massage therapist for 23 years. Keep up the excellent work you do. Great demos and great explanations.
Lawrence G.
Re: Online Course
I just wanted to let you know that your video on shoulder self-care was really helpful. I did it for about a week and everything pretty much cleared up in my shoulder. Thank you very much!
Hi, I've been helping people relieve "intractable" pain successfully for 12 years...
and providing knowledge and training to yoga teachers, massage therapists, bodyworkers, personal trainers, physical therapists, athletic trainers, chiropractors, medical doctors and others in how to neuro-hack pain and restore pain-free range of motion, in themselves and their clients.
I certainly didn't understand pain when I started out. But I was motivated to solve my own back pain, and to help my yoga students with their issues. More on that story here.
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The science behind our proven methods.
Trigger Point Therapy
Most pain is not the result of injury or "nerve impingement", but tiny areas of metabolic stagnation in muscle fibers known as trigger points, usually distant from where the pain is felt. Pain is "referred" from muscles in consistent patterns. Muscle trigger point pain sources, once identified, can be addressed non-invasively.
Neuroscience
Pain is an output of the nervous system, not an input. It is a decision rendered by the brain based on many nociceptive (danger signal) sources. The experience of pain is a threshold event, so if enough of the inputs are decreased, the experience of pain is alleviated.
Peripheral Nervous System Down-Regulation
Resolving trigger point fibers and retraining pain-free movement (neural re-patterning) is the fastest way to change the brain's decision to output pain.
Pain Neuro-Hacking methods of retraining pain-free movement have been refined over many years to be very effective and efficient.
Trusted By Medical Professionals and Therapists
Get help from the guy that medical and therapeutic pros go to, to solve their pain issues.
Jason Season, RN
Jason is a registered nurse who had chronic shoulder pain that baffled his medical colleagues; orthopedic MDs and physical therapists. Shoulder pain solved in a single online coaching session.
Ronda Korzon, LMT
Ronda is a massage therapist that had calf and leg pain that kept her from hiking and playing pickleball. Pain solved in a single in-person session.
Different Perspective, Different Solution
Studies have shown that over 80% of pain complaints presented at clinics are caused by myofascial trigger points rather than actual tissue damage, arthritis, bone spurs, nerve entrapment or other diagnoses.
These diagnoses can lead to inappropriate treatment with drugs, steroid injections and surgery. Pain neuro-hacking methods have a high rate of success with even very serious pain across a wide variety of diagnoses.
- Headaches
- Vertigo
- Neck Pain
- Frozen Shoulder
- Back Pain
- Herniated Discs
- Sciatica
- Arthritis
- Bursitis
- Tendonitis
- Carpal Tunnel Syndrome
- Tennis Elbow
- Fibromyalgia
- Plantar Fasciitis
- Knee Pain
- Hip Pain
and many more...
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Neuro-Hacking Yoga
How to increase range of motion and decrease discomfort,
in any yoga posture, in 10 seconds!
Not kidding, for real 🙏