subject: Chiropractor Beaverton Or | Recovering From Your Injuries Can Take Some Effort [print this page] Injuries, whether mild are severe are not very much fun. Although, for many of us, it is nice to have an excuse to lie around on the couch eating chips and watching CSPAN for hours on end without feeling guilty or receiving dirty looks from roommates or partners. Unfortunately, that is usually not the best way to heal.
Depending on the severity of the injury, there does need to be a down period, where the insulted body part if rested and not aggravated. However, becoming immobile for any length of time is likely to do more harm than good.
Muscles need to be worked to stay strong and pliable. This doesn't mean going out and trying to beat your all time bench-press record two days after breaking your arm, but it does mean making sure that there is some movement. Keeping the muscles, tendons, and ligaments flexible means they will not heal in a shortened position, which can permanently limit mobility. Movement will also increase circulation, which can speed healing.
It is wise to have your practitioner design a program or at least advise you on which exercises will do the most good, as well as how strenuous they should be and ideal frequency of repitition. Overdoing it will be as bad as underdoing it. Again, there are different guidelines depending on the type and severity of the injury, which is why you want a professional involved.
This applies equally to those who feel that any period of inactivity is tantamount to a mortal sin, or at least completely incomprehensible. These are the people who want to start training for the next marathon before the cast is fully hardened. They are as prone to reinjuring themselves, as is the person who wants to move as little as possible.
There is a great deal to be said for working through the pain, but there is equal wisdom in knowing when the pain is trying to tell you something. Type As need professionally designed activity guidelines as much as type Cs.
There is another aspect to healing that often gets overlooked. Nutrition. Lying on the couch eating chips is bad, not only due to inactivity, but to the lack of any food value.
Your body may need more protein, vitamins, and minerals to effectively recover from an injury. For both personality types, this can involve a change in diet. One may need to eat more--and deal with any subsequent weight gain later--and the other may need to eat less. It is likely that both will need to eat differently.
This is another place where a professional is invaluable. Those trained in nutritional counseling can help determine which foods will be best for speeding healing, as well as the appropriate quantities and servings. While changing your diet is rarely the fun and restful thing, we want to do after injuries, not only will the right nutrition help to speed healing, but it can factor in lowering the risk for a repeat of the same injury. Or even something worse.
by: Chris Tomshack
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