There's a concept in Feldenkrais that has a nice application across the board to people who are injured and/or in pain. The idea is always to approach the body as one cohesive unit. In my research on Feldenkrais, and in talking with various practitioners, it's common that working with a client on one part of their body will facilitate healing or a reduction of pain in a more global sense: one practitioner spoke of reducing pain in a particular client's wrist by working on her opposite foot!

I think this goes beyond the idea of 'referred' pain--that is, of a bad ankle leading to knee pain, or a bad hip causing lower-back pain; rather, this suggests that the entire body learns from each part, so if you learn to move an ankle joint more freely and comfortably, that ankle might "teach" the opposite wrist, even if the opposite wrist doesn't move at all. Feldenkrais work has a systemic effect that extends far beyond the area being handled or 'treated' by the practitioner.

If you have, say, a painful lower back, it's common to try to stretch or torque out the pain with a lot of aggressive pulling and twisting movement. Instead, it's probably wiser to stretch, foam-roll, and release everything else around it, so as to remind the body of the comfortable ranges of motion you still have instead of reminding yourself over and over again of the limitation. Vigorously stretching an injured area, though it seems like the right thing to do intuitively, rarely helps much and often causes more harm than good.

(Not an MPF reader.)