Ive had a few articles pop up in my feed about injuries and working out. So, in case youre feeling injured, worried about an injury, recovering from an injury, or trying to prevent injury, here we go. First up is a short article from Breaking Muscle highlighting physical therapy and what it can teach us about strength. Frequently a patient will see someone else with what appears to be the same scar and/or brace performing advanced exercises and he or she will ask me what happened to that person. I can’t legally answer that question, but it’s not really what my client is asking anyway. What my patient wants to know is why that person with the same injury can do things that he or she can’t. The answer is usually simple and often frustrating: because they’re them and you’re you. That can mean anything from differences in motivation and work ethic to genetic differences in physical capacity. Or it could be as simple as having different surgeons with different protocols. [Y]ou are the only measuring stick that matters.... Progress is relative. Take pride in how far you’ve come relative to where you were. Everything else is just noise. breakingmuscle/mobility-recovery/what-physical-therapy-taught-me-about-being-strong And heres a more in-depth article about how injury is often an opportunity to develop strength in another area. It was from these two competent men [Dr. Russell Wright and Dr. John Ziegler] that I developed my philosophy of treating injuries. Instead of backing off and allowing nature to heal the damaged area over an extended period of time, I use the methods Wright and Ziegler recommended: immediately do something to feed blood and nutrients to the injured body part. The main thing I stress to all of my athletes when they get hurt is to keep training. Training while injured is beneficial in several ways. It gives the athlete the opportunity to focus on other body parts that are lagging behind. When an athlete exercises, even without resistance, he is flushing blood and healing nutrients throughout his body, and that includes the dinged area. Whenever an athlete stops training completely when he’s hurt, he typically also stops paying attention to his diet and taking nutritional supplements. And because he isn’t exercising as he did previously, he doesn’t bother with getting any extra rest. But if he continues to train, he also continues the disciplines that greatly aid the healing process. But perhaps the most important reason for an athlete to keep training when he’s hurt is that it allows him to be in control of his destiny and not completely dependent on someone else to make him 100 percent again. I really believe this active-involvement approach creates a much more positive attitude on the part of the athlete, which in turn results in a faster recovery. library.crossfit/free/pdf/CFJ_2014_05_Injured_Starr2.pdf Give them a read and let me know your thoughts!
Posted on: Wed, 24 Sep 2014 17:30:01 +0000
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