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Certified Postural Restoration Center · C2 Advanced Schroth Certified Scoliosis Therapists (BSPTS)

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I got the Chi Running thing!

June 12, 2017 by Jean Massé

Monday is my Day Off, so I went for a run around the Carolina North Forest, two days after our (Chi Running) class on June 3.

I got it! I got the Chi Running thing! I would hesitate really even to call it “running”. it was more like bobbing in place and somehow also going forward. I went an extra three miles because the running felt so good. And when I tried picking up the speed by leaning forward/letting my feet kick out behind me further, it felt great, like my body was doing something it should, like it felt like what I saw great runners doing. I ran hills entirely with my arms and changed nothing with my legs: that was a a huge change.

THANK YOU!

Incidentally, I have been running distance since I was 10; I have always had a strong toe push-off (which put me at a disadvantage in cross country when running through rain and mud); I was nationally ranked in cross country for a brief moment when I was 16. After years away from running, I started training again in the 2000’s and in 2010 just got under a 90 minute half-marathon. And then….I tore my achilles tendon after a hard 14 mile run followed by 4 hours of walking around Manhattan.

I feel like I have been hobbled ever since, but Chi Running gives me new hope. Maybe I can run again…with joy? But it’s unlike any kind of running I have ever done before: it’s just bobbing place and somehow also moving forward.

Thanks again,

Robert Fruehwirth – Chapel Hill

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About Jean Massé

Jean Masse PT, DPT, PRC, OCS, ATC has never stopped working to understand the elegance of human structure and movement. She blends her passion for movement and function with patience, knowledge and consideration of each patient as an individual

Advance Physical Therapy is a physical therapist owned practice offering quality rehabilitation to clients in Chapel Hill, Durham, Carrboro, Pittsboro, Cary and surrounding areas of the Triangle in North Carolina.

Our therapists are highly experienced in traditional physical therapy techniques and have specialized expertise in a variety of areas including Postural Restoration, Manual Therapy, Counterstrain, Schroth based Scoliosis Rehabilitation, Pediatrics, Sports Medicine, Orthotics and Personal Training.

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