What are your favorite tools for accelerating injury recovery?

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Colin Diment · Answer

This is a great question and there's already two really good answers. And the thing that stood out to me from those two answers is finding the balance between relative rest and movement. Okay, so after an injury of course, you are arresting and refraining from anything that's going to make the injury worse. Okay? So anything that's causing more pain or inflammation or tissue damage either during the activity or after is stuff that you need to hold off on that. You need to work back up toward But within that, you need to get as much movement as you reasonably can that is the rehab process after an injury is slowly and methodically reintroducing movements in a safe controlled way and building that back up until you have full control over the injured area again, okay? So movement is Far and Away the recovery tool of choice. It is the only recovery tool and everything else is kind of supportive. I love that but beyond that the to low-hanging fruits to dial in our, your nutrition and your sleep, those are the building blocks for recovery and the time in which recovery actually happens the food, you eat, should be healthy and balanced, and filled with the vitamins and the minerals that are necessary for rebuilding that tissue and it's the time to die. Dial in your sleep and get the best quality sleep that you can to help support the injury recovery process, okay? So it's basic, it's not highly marketable, but movement sleep and nutrition. Are the three primary tools.

Nick Hadinger · Answer

What are your favorite tools for accelerating injury recovery? I don't have two answers to this question. So my first answer is not necessarily a tool but as a strategy, any time that you have an injury, I would really, really focus on keeping that joint or muscle or whatever it is moving. So within within tolerance. So there's a lot of research that supports early mobilization of Much any injury now, doesn't mean that you need to overdo it, and cause a lot of pain for yourself, but keeping it moving rather than just laying up on the couch for a couple days, always going to be the best answer in terms of rehab a tool that I like to use in our practice is Blood Flow, Restriction therapy. So you basically can create a anaerobic environment in the tissue that is being rehabbed to Seller, eight, hypertrophy and strength gains that normally would require heavier loads to to get. But when you're hurt, it's really hard to move heavy weight, right? So we can get those same kind of strength, gains and adaptations and growth hormone response simply by using bfr, and it's a really good way for an injured athlete to continue to get some Muscle burn and feel like they're really working hard and get some training adaptations going while they're injured.

Zachary Cohen · Answer

There really isn't one specific tool that works. Best for everybody when and trying to accelerate a recovery from an injury. Honestly, it depends on the root cause of what that injury is. So rest number one is going to be the most important thing, but rest for the pre requisite amount of time depending on the injury at hand. So, for example, if you just kind of, you know, let's say you irritate your attendant in your knee, as an example, something maybe just has some inflammation. Well, you need to give it some time to recover in the rest time. Not be that long. And then we need to actually Implement exercises to teach that tendon, to be able to re-acclimate to handling more loading. That might be consistent with the sport or activity that you participate in. So really depends on the nature of the injury, which is more soft tissue and needs, rest to get it down to a solid Baseline to where we can then start progressively adding exercise or activities to help it re-acclimate to loading and then hopefully be able to tolerate those in a better manner than it had previously. Obviously, however, other tissues require different methods. So really kind of depends on what the actual nature of the injury is, but something such as ice or heat or things. A lot of people tend to go with when they're trying to look for a sir quick fixes and Magic tools. Tend not to be the best way to think about things. They're more Band-Aid approaches, where we want to often times. Take a look at well what are some of the root causes as to why the injury occurred and then, how can we address? That.

Jim Heafner · Answer

Personally, my favorite tool for accelerating injury recovery is going to be cold water immersion. Now I know the other answer is talked about sleep and movement in nutrition and those are by far at the top of the list of things that you need to do but sort of my fun out of the box, less research one is is dropping yourself into a cold ice cold bath. And the reason that this works is and it doesn't like from a research standpoint, it's really hard to show. Let's say if you injure your ankle, we I know if the cold has an impact on the periphery of it changes, the inflammation markers and what not? But what it does is that it works on a psychological level where you have to put yourself into a, do a more intense experience and pain is already a fairly intense experience and it's stressful. So your body sort of adapts this current state when you're in pain or after an injury and we need to shake up that cycle and a great way to do that is by putting yourself into and An intense cold State. Not only does it help desensitize, some of the, the nerve fibers that are probably aggravating some of the pain symptoms. But when you overcome that and you stay in the cold a little bit longer than you think you can, it gives you sort of this dopamine when and dopamine victory of saying, okay, I can get through this and that that small bit of self-empowerment goes a long way for healing with injuries. So I know it's out of the box, I'm sort of looking at it from a different perspective but using cold immersion 22. We Empower your mind almost as they answer. I would give

Dr. Brian Cunningham · Answer

What are your favorite tools for accelerating rehab? I'm going to be outside the box on this one and I'm going to tell you from past experience with many clients and athletes. That they're not honest with themselves in that they are continuing to train at a higher level than they let on.

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