Physioactive

🔥5 signs to take care of during rehabilitation.

❄️ Exercises prescription is not about inventing new stuff, it's all about dosing and when to do which exercise.

🔥Imaging ≠ function (!!!)

This is an X-ray of a knee, After 5 surgeries (3 ACL reconstructions, HTO, scope).

BUT this doesn’t define the case...

Although imaging can play a role in helping work out what is causing pain in the moment, it does not tell the whole story.

In conclusion: Treat the person, not the image ✨

⭐️WHY PAIN CAN BE NORMAL DURING REHAB⭐️

❗️Many individuals suffering from chronic pain or that are past the acute stage of an injury are scared to start exercising again because they believe that PAIN = MORE DAMAGE. If you have read my prior posts, you know that chronic pain is like a faulty alarm that needs to be adjusted. One of the best ways to “adjust” this alarm is to MOVE and EXERCISE
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📈The graph in this post illustrates that as you increase your tolerance to handle more exercise and activity, your pain will dissipate inversely. If you notice at the beginning of the graph, pain is high and ability to handle exercise is low. This is where people are most likely to avoid exercise they are in a high pain state and because their tolerance for movement is low, a lot of activities cause pain so they assume that they should remain inactive. This is the LAST thing you want to do the more inactive you stay, the greater your pain will become
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🛎What you need to do is progressively increase your activity levels and try to avoid flare ups (which would you bring you back to left of the graph). The longer you do this, the more your pain will dissipate. It might still be there as you progress but it will lessen with each major progression that you make. It is important to note that your progress might not be as linear as depicted in the graph. Expect some bumps along the road!