When it hurts
Applied pain science, movement and internal arts
9 min readNov 2, 2021
I wrote this article to kick off some discussions about pain among practitioners of internal martial arts (Tai Chi, qigong, Bagua …). Originally it was on another platform dedicated to the broad study of martial arts. So what’s in it?
We start with a summary of how I understand pain science which is meant to be practical and easy to…