Sports Injury Rehabilitation — An essential primer — The injury, rest and weakness downward spiral!
Why do we keep suffering from repeated injuries and pains until they become chronic?
The basic science of injury and rehabilitation that everybody misses
I injured my left knee during my marathon training 5 years ago and it still keeps flaring up.My back if weak. I first felt pain during dead-lifts and now it has turned to chronic pain.Every time I do push-ups, or try to increase the intensity of my workouts, my wrists start paining.
If you can relate to any such scenario, where an injury or pain keeps flaring up every-time you go back to your favorite or routine activities, you are probably caught up in the dreaded injury rehabilitation spiral — injury-rest-weakness downward spiral!
What is the injury-rest-weakness downward spiral that is affecting your injury rehabilitation?
- Most sports injuries occur due to over-load or over-training.
Over-load or over-training is simply putting your body under the amount of load or training that it is not currently ready (strong and/or mobile enough) to bear and recover from. - And at one point, we realize, and very correctly so, that if we keep loading or training our bodies at same intensities, that it is currently unable to bear or recover from, then the only result would be the injury getting worse.
- So, comes the REST, and very rightly so! If everything is being done right, then with proper rest, the injury/pain goes away and we feel ready to get back to action.(Read More)
