How often do we tell ourselves that we’re “letting our shoulder, hips, or back heal”—even when it’s been weeks or months since we were injured?
As a Physical Therapist, it upsets me to know that a lot of my “colleagues” are to blame for this. PT’s with little to no exercise experience try to treat complex problems by essentially ignoring them—and telling their clients to rest and wait for the injury to heal.
Sure, these PT’s may give their clients a few small little exercises to help…but that’s usually where they stop. After the first few sessions, the client may have less pain, but they have ZERO idea what to do next. When can they start working out again? What kind of exercises should they avoid? How can they get back on the wagon?
This way of doing things is BROKEN. I’m often left trying to re-educate my clients on why “doing nothing” or avoiding a movement pattern all together might help them feel better in the short-term, but will only make things worse in the long-term.
Here’s what most PT’s won’t tell you: “Rest” is only important when you are truly dealing with a serious injury… broken bones, torn muscles, debilitating pain, you get the idea.
After that, you know what injuries need? Blood flow, movement, and practice.
Which is why it kills me when a months or even years after an injury, my clients feel nervous to work out again. Whatever injury you have now, it will only get worse if you continue to “rest” it forever. It will never get better.
Training, when done properly, always improves injuries. ALWAYS.
Reason #2 for why we get stuck:
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