Research at Curious Gap
Discovering where you are to get where you want to be.
Approach
Our current approach to helping others improve their pain, health and/or performance starts with an understanding of where they are and where they want to be. This calculation involves physical, physiologic, behavioral and emotional assessment and interpretation. For example, if one wants to improve how they move, they must know where and how they stand. Next, we determine what the individual knows and what they do. This requires a thorough review of knowledge and experience. Take this other example: to improve one’s experience with pain, one must understand what their pain means. The gap between where the individual is and where they want to be can then be pursued by closing the gap on what they know and what they do. The exciting and essential factor is we get to work at these curious gaps forever. The magic is making their pursuit your practice.
Learning
The field of pain recovery and resiliency building is complicated. Resolving pain and improving resilience and performance, for work and life, involves interactions and relationships between our psychoneuroimmunologic system, neuromusculoskeletal system, and our external environment. There is a constant interaction between your brain and nervous system, muscles, organs, and your external environment.
We are not static organisms. Estimates are that cellular interactions number between thirty to forty trillion cells. We are a vibration of cellular interactions that change, instantaneously, due to moments and events and when we—ourselves or others—observe us. Our bodily function has more factors that are undiscovered than areas of exploration in rockets and spacecraft.
Many of the solutions that improve individuals are, conversely, simple. Doing less and thinking more simply are often the distinctions that help individuals’ pain, resiliency, and performance needs when others have not.
Therefore, what we currently understand and apply isn’t rocket science. It’s not trying to take a man to Mars. It’s harder.
The Hope
What we are exploring and discovering is not as important as taking a man to the moon. It is more important. Currently, our society’s approach to physical, mental, and emotional health has an undesirable and fascinating gap between what we know and what we do. This curious gap has caused escalations in most chronic diseases, chronic pain and mental illness.
We are relentless in pursuing the knowledge and experiences that will close this gap. Curious Gap is a group of individuals dedicated to research and development of learning methods and tools to close the gap on what we know and what we do. We want to help others close the gap on where they are and where they want to be. We want to help them take their health, resilience, and performance to the moon. Reach for the stars!
A Living Lab of Human Performance
The Central Institute for Human Performance is a multidisciplinary private training facility dedicated to helping people heal from chronic pain, rehabilitate injury, build resilience, and improve performance. In conjunction with its clinical branch, the Karel Lewit Clinic, the Institute is dedicated to utilizing and developing assessments and methods from the cutting-edge of orthopedics, rehabilitation science and sports medicine. For over 20 years, the Institute has helped empower performance in people from all around the world, from everyday laypersons to elite military and championship athletes. Curious Gap Labs draws on and informs experiences at the Institute.
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