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View submission: "Trauma" vs. learned postures from physical activities
My parents forced me to play violin from a very young age rigjt up through adolescence . Always hated the thing. I definitely have a wierd kind of imbalance in my neck and shoulders and chronic tightness on one side due to the wierd posture I had to hold practicing for hours and hours , years and years. TRE is definitely loosing things back up. I think forcing kids into stuff that tenses the body and invests tension is tantamount to child abuse.
Comment by miniwasabi at 31/01/2025 at 10:40 UTC
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I have always said I think playing the violin must be one of the worst things you can do to your body! I can imagine there are probably better and worse ways to do it, but it looks so inherently uncomfortable! I played classical guitar as a child, which also has a weird asymmetric posture, and put myself under a lot of stress to be perfect with it. I enjoyed it but still! Even now in my 40's I can feel patterns of one sided tension I attribute to my classical guitar as a kid/teen. I've just started my TRE practice, I'll be interested to see if it improves! I'm thinking I'm going to get my kids into piano and drumming :-)
Comment by Soft-Competition-740 at 31/01/2025 at 16:41 UTC
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Right, so this is sort of why I made this post! Didn't think about violin, but that makes so much sense. I have a young daughter right now who is actually right at the age where ballet is very interesting to her, and it sort of got me thinking... if it's possible that an activity could affect a person so much in the future, how should parents best go about wanting to foster creativity, curiosity, trying new activities etc. in their children, but also protect their bodies from unexpected consequences down the line? Like it got me thinking about how many parents now are not having their kids try football due to all the press focus on CTE, for example...