MyoMedic

🏋🏼‍♂️Training with injuries🚑
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Injuries seem to be an inevitable part of sport and training. Whether you’re a team sport athlete, iron sport athlete or weekend warrior, chances are you’re going to be faced with an injury at some point.
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GOOD NEWS! You don’t always need to take time off from training! There are a lot of ways to alter training so that you can continue to progress while rehabbing an injury.
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As a CSCS and RMT I found this course particularly insightful and useful to help athletes to heal AND makes gains 💪🏼

Pain shouldn’t be killed💊, it should be relieved💆🏼‍♂️. Our bodies use pain as an indicator to stop doing whatever is causing the pain.
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There are lots of different kinds of pain that correlate to different tissues.
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•🦴Bone injuries often hurt more immediately after the event causing the break and will be accompanied with swelling. Over time the pain will become a dull constant ache, and can be made worse with movement as the muscle pulls on the bone or when pressure is applied. A special test with a tuning fork can help identify micro fractures/fractures and an X-Ray should be taken to confirm.
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•Muscle pain can feel similar to bone injuries in that they can be a dull constant ache, the pain will always be worse when the muscle is moved with load (unless it is a complete tear). Muscle injuries can be the result of a specific event or an over due injury over time. Helping your healthcare practitioner understand your daily life is important in identifying injuries and creating a plan so they don’t return.
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•Ligament pain will present very similar to muscle pain and can be tricky to identify. Ligaments will hurt when you move the joint on your own, when moved with load and when moved passively. It will feel the same in all 3 tests because ligaments are a non contractile tissue. Ultra sounds can be used to confirm muscle, tendon and ligament damage.
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•Nerve pain is a very distinguished pain. Usually people describe it as lightening or fire sensation, it can also be numbness or paresethesia (tingling). The tricky part with nerve impingement/entrapment is that symptoms are exhibited at the very end of the nerve (fingers, toes) and the location of the “pinched” nerve has to be identified.
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As a massage therapist I can definitely help with a lot of injuries. My scope of practice is soft tissues (muscle, tendon, ligaments, fascia). I cannot fix broken bones, torn muscles, tendons or ligaments, but fortunately you can! Your body has all the mechanisms to fix damaged tissue, but it takes time! But I can help with some of the rehab. I cannot fix nerve damage but I can relieve nerves being compressed by tight muscles.

.melissa83 came to me with shoulder pain that was impeding her ability to train for her upcoming competition.
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After an orthopaedic assessment of the shoulder we found a small tear in her rotator cuff (supraspinatus).
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Her treatment plan for the next hour was to perform cupping and deep tissue massage on all the muscles attaching to the upper arm, and Graston Technique on the supraspinatus to break apart the scar tissue where the tear occurred.
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The homecare I gave her was just as important as the treatment. She needed to stretch the supraspinatus and eccentrically load it so that the scar tissue would align with the muscle fibres.
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Being an athlete myself I understood where Shannon was coming from when she told me should couldn’t stop training. So, we gave her modified exercises to limit the amount of supraspinatus involvement during training.

I did a thing! First of many certificates in soft tissue injury rehab and prevention!

Cryiax or Cross Fibre Frictions are used on scar tissue (collagen) formed in muscles, tendons, or ligaments to increase mobility.

These scar tissue adhesions most commonly present problems in the form of tendinitis.

These frictions break the scar tissue that has been laid down over injured soft tissue. The reason for this is so that when the healing process begins again we can tell the collagen fibres/scar tissue to lay down in the same direction as the muscle fibres through stretching and eccentric exercises allowing for increased mobility.

Collagen is extremely strong, and our body lays it down in a mesh fashion so that we don’t injure that tissue again, in doing so we lose mobility and can result in pain.