How do you encourage patients to stay active while addressing their injury?

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Nick Hadinger · Answer

Encouraging patients to stay active while addressing their injury is something that we try to do with every single patient and I think that it's super important. Number one because when people take some time out of their sport, their injury is probably going to feel better regardless. So that's not, that's really hard for us to say is that because we're actually healing and things are getting better or are we just not doing the painful stimulus anymore. But then also if we take time out of the sport, well now we have this deconditioning effect where cool things feel good, now we have to ramp back up the conditioning and that big change from 0 to 100, if not done appropriately can facilitate other injuries along the way. So we try to keep people active and I think that having a really good understanding of the sport that the person is trying to do is crucial here because there's a lot of ways if you understand the sport, you know of different variables you can manipulate and different things that you can do to keep the person engaged and participating. But maybe with different variables that you can kind of manipulate and that aren't going to stress their injury quite so much. So a knowledge of the sport and a knowledge of the programming of the sport are crucial.

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