Recovery Time
We all know we live in a world of instant gratification and waiting for anything can be difficult. So since I don’t have a magic wand to change this, this month I thought I’d touch on how myofascial release can help your recovery time with exercise and daily activities. I will be giving specific examples of people who have received myofascial release and what it’s done to help their recovery time!!! So, think about what is possible for you.
Lets start with recent or new injuries, and lets define these injuries that have happened as soon as today and up to the past year. I worked with someone that had a recent shoulder injury and it wasn’t getting any better from other therapies. We had our initial session and when they came back for their second session I was told there was a big improvement in range-of-motion, which I also saw, as-well-as the shoulder pain felt had significantly decreased. These improvements continued as the sessions continued. Recent injuries typically respond quickly to myofascial release and recovery time for getting back to what you love doing is also fairly quick!
Old injuries and old pain, a.k.a. chronic pain, can be anything from a year ago to decades ago. When I consider old injuries and recovery time this usually looks much different than what I wrote about new injuries. Old injuries and pain can honestly get aggravated when you disturbed them and through MFR hands-on treatments as-well-as self-care recovery time can speed up as time goes on. A recent example I can give is that of someone with a low back injury and their journey with MFR, aggravating their injury and their sped up recovery time. Exercise is something that can really bother this individuals chronic low back issue. After a recent change in exercise their low back was kinda unhappy for around five days with each day getting better. You may think five days sounds like a long time, but this person used to have a recovery time of over one week sometimes even closer to two weeks. This person receives MFR on a consistent basis and speaks of an almost daily MFR self-care program at home. This shows me that through having MFR has a lifestyle when something changes and an area(s) inflames MFR does help. Remember to keep in mind old injuries take time to heal. Healing is not a quick fix.
Activities and exercise are a part of life. The idea with injuries and MFR is to help them heal and decrease the discomfort time as-much-as possible, which is speeding up the recovery time!!! This can and does take work, and the end result is encouraging whether a recent or old injury.