Karen L [Moderator]

**Karen L** · 13-03-2011, 07:35 AM

Welcome to SomaSimple.

I am Karen, a registered massage therapist in British Columbia, Canada. I have been a member of SomaSimple since March 2008. I was in school at the time and searched for information on pain. I found one of Barrett Dorko's essays and subsequently found my way to SomaSimple. I have taken courses given by Barrett and Diane and met a few of the other members personally. In December 2010 I was asked to join the moderators of the forum to help with issues if they arise.

The generous atmosphere of the forum has allowed my passion to thrive; I am a neuronaut and web searching is my forte. For new members one of the benefits of active participation of the forum is getting to know some wonderful people and having access to the resources of those minds.

I am always willing to receive PM (private messages) for help involving searches and finding information on the wider net. New members are encouraged to learn and use the Search feature as it offers the best door into the vast repository of ideas and discussions held here.

I am also a big twitter user and would like to personally encourage twitter users to join us as we explore manual therapy, physiotherapy, and pain among many other topics. Go to
Twitter.com to find and link @somasimple and to many of the members. There is a world of information as rich as the Library of Alexandria to explore.

Thank you and welcome to all new viewers. Please feel free to start a welcome thread and introduce yourself.

Karen L

Jon Newman · 13-03-2011, 06:55 PM

Glad to see you're now a moderator Karen. Yea for SS.

Will your screen name become moderator colored now? Or is it the bold lettering that distinguishes the moderators?

tonyf315 · 14-03-2011, 02:20 AM

awesome Karen!

**John W** · 14-03-2011, 02:30 AM

Yeah, Karen, why aren't you blue?

Thanks in part to you and your cyberspace acumen, I'm now being harassed by certain members of this forum to sign up for a twitter account.

I tried to blame my tardiness on my age, but since Diane and Barrett are now tweeting, I no longer have that excuse.

TexasOrtho · 14-03-2011, 02:48 AM

Congrats Karen!

Diane please stop harassing John.

**Diane** · 14-03-2011, 02:55 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by TexasOrtho

Congrats Karen!

Diane please stop harassing John.

Huh? John? Have I harrassed you lately?
Or is this just TO harrassing Diane?

**Karen L** · 14-03-2011, 03:01 AM

Thanks everyone. I am sorry for not having done my intro as a moderator earlier. John yes please try twitter. You and Sebastian are about the last hold outs. I have amped up @somasimple we follow 203 and have 105 followers. The thing is how those social contacts extend out into a vast mind think and vise verse to enable problem solving to the nth scale.

Check out the visual graphics in Deb Roy's TED Talk. Thanks Diane for the original link. http://blog.ted.com/2011/03/10/deb-roy/

This is how social media will reach the people and lowers the bastion walls.

Karen

I think I am black because that is the SC colour. DNMers are Orange, SomaSimplers are green, I can't tell what blue stands for but Jason and John are blue. It is sort of like Gryffindor, Slytherin, Hufflepuff and Ravenclaw.

**Diane** · 14-03-2011, 03:08 AM

I agree, Karen.
You've done more in one week with Twitter than the rest of us had in - what - a year? So, thank you for that.
C'mon John, c'mon Bas. (This has been your official harrassment from me.)

**Karen L** · 14-03-2011, 03:44 AM

I think Twitter is also bringing new members. There have been at least six new registrations this weekend. I am stoked on these new contacts. That is why I popped into the welcome forum and tried to stir the mix. Bernard's generosity floors me as does the chance to know people like Jason and John, Barrett and Alex, Diane and Bronnie among the constellation of wonderful people world wide. Someone from McMaster University was looking at one of my threads recently. I mean WOW, just WOW.

Cheers everyone.
Karen

**Bas Asselbergs** · 14-03-2011, 11:42 AM

Diane, I will need a crash course in twitterese.
I know it is limited to 150 characters and that all kinds of Hollywood "personalities" pro-athletes give way too much detail about their social life with it.

I guess it is about time I join up then.

Karen - neuronaut, neuromotormaniac, all-around somasimple energizer bunny.
Thanks.

**Barrett Dorko** · 14-03-2011, 11:49 AM

When you tweet about something happening here it is akin to sending a homing pigeon into the air.

It always finds its way and it cannot be stopped - thus is its power.

In this way we might even fly into some of the schools.

**Bas Asselbergs** · 14-03-2011, 12:08 PM

OK, my first tweet is out there.
Soon I will be the owner of a smartphone and I'll follow all of you Soma-twitters wherever I go.

Scary.

**Diane** · 14-03-2011, 03:30 PM

Bas, you don't have to buy a gadget to tweet.

So, congratulations. I'll find you there and follow you. Soon there will be a flock.

TexasOrtho · 14-03-2011, 05:05 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Diane

Huh? John? Have I harrassed you lately?
Or is this just TO harrassing Diane?

It's me just goofing around. I picked on John about twitter over the weekend. We'll see if he cracks.

**John W** · 14-03-2011, 05:31 PM

Quote:

We'll see if he cracks.

Hey, whaddya mean by "cracks"? Is that another old joke?

TexasOrtho · 14-03-2011, 07:12 PM

I wish I were that clever. I'm thinking @JohnWare would be a great twitter name.

**Frédéric** · 14-03-2011, 07:51 PM

Karen, I have to admit your regular contribution here is very valuable to us all and definitively for me it is.

Thanks again.

13-03-2011, 07:35 AM	#1
Karen L Senior Member Join Date: Mar 2008 Location: Victoria Canada Posts: 1,518 Thanks: 37 Thanked 220 Times in 109 Posts	Karen L [Moderator] Welcome to SomaSimple. I am Karen, a registered massage therapist in British Columbia, Canada. I have been a member of SomaSimple since March 2008. I was in school at the time and searched for information on pain. I found one of Barrett Dorko's essays and subsequently found my way to SomaSimple. I have taken courses given by Barrett and Diane and met a few of the other members personally. In December 2010 I was asked to join the moderators of the forum to help with issues if they arise. The generous atmosphere of the forum has allowed my passion to thrive; I am a neuronaut and web searching is my forte. For new members one of the benefits of active participation of the forum is getting to know some wonderful people and having access to the resources of those minds. I am always willing to receive PM (private messages) for help involving searches and finding information on the wider net. New members are encouraged to learn and use the Search feature as it offers the best door into the vast repository of ideas and discussions held here. I am also a big twitter user and would like to personally encourage twitter users to join us as we explore manual therapy, physiotherapy, and pain among many other topics. Go to Twitter.com to find and link @somasimple and to many of the members. There is a world of information as rich as the Library of Alexandria to explore. Thank you and welcome to all new viewers. Please feel free to start a welcome thread and introduce yourself. Karen L Last edited by Karen L; 13-03-2011 at 08:13 AM.

13-03-2011, 06:55 PM	#2
Jon Newman Enjoy a moment of whimsy Join Date: Dec 2005 Posts: 9,024 Thanks: 5 Thanked 54 Times in 40 Posts	Glad to see you're now a moderator Karen. Yea for SS. Will your screen name become moderator colored now? Or is it the bold lettering that distinguishes the moderators? __________________ "I did a small amount of web-based research, and what I found is disturbing"--Bob Morris

14-03-2011, 02:30 AM	#4
John W Harmless creampuff Join Date: Sep 2006 Location: New Orleans, LA Age: 48 Posts: 4,643 Thanks: 614 Thanked 966 Times in 436 Posts	Yeah, Karen, why aren't you blue? Thanks in part to you and your cyberspace acumen, I'm now being harassed by certain members of this forum to sign up for a twitter account. I tried to blame my tardiness on my age, but since Diane and Barrett are now tweeting, I no longer have that excuse. __________________ John Ware, PT Fellow of the American Academy of Orthopedic Manual Physical Therapists "Nothing can bring a man peace but the triumph of principles." -R.W. Emerson “If names be not correct, language is not in accordance with the truth of things. If language be not in accordance with the truth of things, affairs cannot be carried on to success.” -The Analects of Confucius, Book 13, Verse 3

14-03-2011, 02:48 AM	#5
TexasOrtho Senior Member Join Date: Feb 2008 Location: Huffman, TX Age: 41 Posts: 1,319 Thanks: 278 Thanked 212 Times in 82 Posts	Congrats Karen! Diane please stop harassing John. __________________ Rod Henderson, PT, OCS "To teach is to create a space in which the community of truth is practiced" - Parker Palmer

14-03-2011, 03:01 AM	#7
Karen L Senior Member Join Date: Mar 2008 Location: Victoria Canada Posts: 1,518 Thanks: 37 Thanked 220 Times in 109 Posts	Thanks everyone. I am sorry for not having done my intro as a moderator earlier. John yes please try twitter. You and Sebastian are about the last hold outs. I have amped up @somasimple we follow 203 and have 105 followers. The thing is how those social contacts extend out into a vast mind think and vise verse to enable problem solving to the nth scale. Check out the visual graphics in Deb Roy's TED Talk. Thanks Diane for the original link. http://blog.ted.com/2011/03/10/deb-roy/ This is how social media will reach the people and lowers the bastion walls. Karen I think I am black because that is the SC colour. DNMers are Orange, SomaSimplers are green, I can't tell what blue stands for but Jason and John are blue. It is sort of like Gryffindor, Slytherin, Hufflepuff and Ravenclaw. Last edited by Karen L; 14-03-2011 at 03:10 AM. Reason: Black and blue.

14-03-2011, 02:20 AM	#3
tonyf315 OCD neuromatrix for sale Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: Wausau, WI Age: 45 Posts: 315 Thanks: 204 Thanked 42 Times in 23 Posts	awesome Karen!

14-03-2011, 03:08 AM	#8
Diane Human Primate Social Groomer and Neuroelastician Join Date: Mar 2004 Location: Weyburn Sask. Posts: 19,663 Thanks: 1,482 Thanked 3,177 Times in 1,560 Posts	I agree, Karen. You've done more in one week with Twitter than the rest of us had in - what - a year? So, thank you for that. C'mon John, c'mon Bas. (This has been your official harrassment from me.) __________________ Diane www.dermoneuromodulation.com SensibleSolutionsPhysiotherapy HumanAntiGravitySuit blog Neurotonics PT Teamblog Diane Jacobs.com (personal website) Canadian Physiotherapy Pain Science Division (Archived newsletters) Canadian Physiotherapy Association Pain Science Division Facebook page @PainPhysiosCan WCPT PhysiotherapyPainNetwork on Facebook @WCPTPTPN Neuroscience and Pain Science for Manual PTs Facebook page @dfjpt SomaSimple on Facebook @somasimple "Rene Descartes was very very smart, but as it turned out, he was wrong." ~Lorimer Moseley “Comment is free, but the facts are sacred.” ~Charles Prestwich Scott, nephew of founder and editor (1872-1929) of The Guardian , in a 1921 Centenary editorial “If you make people think they're thinking, they'll love you, but if you really make them think, they'll hate you." ~Don Marquis "In times of change, learners inherit the earth, while the learned find themselves beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists" ~Roland Barth "Doubt is not a pleasant mental state, but certainty is a ridiculous one."~Voltaire

14-03-2011, 03:44 AM	#9
Karen L Senior Member Join Date: Mar 2008 Location: Victoria Canada Posts: 1,518 Thanks: 37 Thanked 220 Times in 109 Posts	I think Twitter is also bringing new members. There have been at least six new registrations this weekend. I am stoked on these new contacts. That is why I popped into the welcome forum and tried to stir the mix. Bernard's generosity floors me as does the chance to know people like Jason and John, Barrett and Alex, Diane and Bronnie among the constellation of wonderful people world wide. Someone from McMaster University was looking at one of my threads recently. I mean WOW, just WOW. Cheers everyone. Karen

14-03-2011, 11:42 AM	#10
Bas Asselbergs Physiotherapist Join Date: Jul 2004 Location: Canada Age: 61 Posts: 3,693 Thanks: 834 Thanked 484 Times in 233 Posts	Diane, I will need a crash course in twitterese. I know it is limited to 150 characters and that all kinds of Hollywood "personalities" pro-athletes give way too much detail about their social life with it. I guess it is about time I join up then. Karen - neuronaut, neuromotormaniac, all-around somasimple energizer bunny. Thanks. __________________ We don't see things as they are, we see things as WE are - Anais Nin Pain is a conscious correlate of the implicit perception of threat to body tissue - Lorimer Moseley

14-03-2011, 11:49 AM	#11
Barrett Dorko Writer and Clinician Join Date: Nov 2005 Location: Cuyahoga Falls, Ohio Age: 61 Posts: 12,638 Thanks: 605 Thanked 1,448 Times in 852 Posts	When you tweet about something happening here it is akin to sending a homing pigeon into the air. It always finds its way and it cannot be stopped - thus is its power. In this way we might even fly into some of the schools. __________________ Barrett L. Dorko P.T. www.barrettdorko.com

14-03-2011, 12:08 PM	#12
Bas Asselbergs Physiotherapist Join Date: Jul 2004 Location: Canada Age: 61 Posts: 3,693 Thanks: 834 Thanked 484 Times in 233 Posts	OK, my first tweet is out there. Soon I will be the owner of a smartphone and I'll follow all of you Soma-twitters wherever I go. Scary. __________________ We don't see things as they are, we see things as WE are - Anais Nin Pain is a conscious correlate of the implicit perception of threat to body tissue - Lorimer Moseley

14-03-2011, 03:30 PM	#13
Diane Human Primate Social Groomer and Neuroelastician Join Date: Mar 2004 Location: Weyburn Sask. Posts: 19,663 Thanks: 1,482 Thanked 3,177 Times in 1,560 Posts	Bas, you don't have to buy a gadget to tweet. So, congratulations. I'll find you there and follow you. Soon there will be a flock. __________________ Diane www.dermoneuromodulation.com SensibleSolutionsPhysiotherapy HumanAntiGravitySuit blog Neurotonics PT Teamblog Diane Jacobs.com (personal website) Canadian Physiotherapy Pain Science Division (Archived newsletters) Canadian Physiotherapy Association Pain Science Division Facebook page @PainPhysiosCan WCPT PhysiotherapyPainNetwork on Facebook @WCPTPTPN Neuroscience and Pain Science for Manual PTs Facebook page @dfjpt SomaSimple on Facebook @somasimple "Rene Descartes was very very smart, but as it turned out, he was wrong." ~Lorimer Moseley “Comment is free, but the facts are sacred.” ~Charles Prestwich Scott, nephew of founder and editor (1872-1929) of The Guardian , in a 1921 Centenary editorial “If you make people think they're thinking, they'll love you, but if you really make them think, they'll hate you." ~Don Marquis "In times of change, learners inherit the earth, while the learned find themselves beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists" ~Roland Barth "Doubt is not a pleasant mental state, but certainty is a ridiculous one."~Voltaire

14-03-2011, 07:12 PM	#16
TexasOrtho Senior Member Join Date: Feb 2008 Location: Huffman, TX Age: 41 Posts: 1,319 Thanks: 278 Thanked 212 Times in 82 Posts	I wish I were that clever. I'm thinking @JohnWare would be a great twitter name. __________________ Rod Henderson, PT, OCS "To teach is to create a space in which the community of truth is practiced" - Parker Palmer

14-03-2011, 07:51 PM	#17
Frédéric Swaying against the breeze Join Date: Sep 2008 Location: Prévost Québec Age: 37 Posts: 1,880 Thanks: 92 Thanked 122 Times in 57 Posts	Karen, I have to admit your regular contribution here is very valuable to us all and definitively for me it is. Thanks again. __________________ Frédéric Wellens, pht «We often refuse to accept an idea merely because the tone of voice in which it has been expressed is unsympathetic to us.» «Those who cannot understand how to put their thoughts on ice should not enter into the heat of debate. » Friedrich Nietzsche www.physioaxis.ca chroniquesdedouleur blog

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