Best method to heal a muscle strain?
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don't stretch it because you don't want to cause further damage. The body is an excellent healing machine, so really your best best is resting it and icing it. Then in a few days you can massage the area to get some blood flow into the area to help the healing process.
Also, the next time you train your chest, warm up before hand. Don't just start lifting weights cold without a warmup...that's asking for an injury and longer recovery time.
Also, the next time you train your chest, warm up before hand. Don't just start lifting weights cold without a warmup...that's asking for an injury and longer recovery time.
Just had an issue with my right knee. And I know all this advice will make all the internet physios and doctors go white as a sheet, but frankly I can't afford to have time off right now as Iam on a 'cycle'. So I went to the gym despite my knee cap really hurting and it slightly swollen. And true enough it was hurting even doing exercises where there is no real involvement with the knee, bench press, pullovers etc etc, even getting up from the lat pulldown machine hurt like a bytch.
So I was dreading doing my legs, 5 sets of 12 squats and 5 sets of 12 lunges, 12 lunges on each leg. so that make 24 per set. And to start with I felt it but by the end dripping with sweat and wanting to throw up and I had no pain at all, and today my knee is actually not hurting at all .
Doctors are bloody useless regarding sports injuries, Iam talking about your average GP, all they say is rest and ICE been there done that. One told me to 'rest a groin strain', rested it for two weeks went back to the gym,did something very light on my legs and restrained it even worse so I walked home like I had been booted in the balls.
And in my experience all physios do is take your money. When I badly strained both my wrists in a fight(don't ask... fighting drunk in the street),I went to this physio recommended by my doctor, and while she was very good looking, and I kind of enjoyed the pain she put me through a month later, my wrists were still so fukked I couldn't even open my front door or flush the toilet without someone doing it for me. They weren't broke, as xrays said there weren't according to the doc.
What helped.,I just went back to the gym and fought through the pain doing my usual exercises but lighter weights, within a week I was much better.
So this is my view and it's up to you if you follow it and potentially makes things worse or better. you have been to the docs and according to the doc it is a muscle sprain, nothing else. training related probably. Unless you have loads of cash and can afford the best sports physios and doctors in the local area, Iam talking who the professional athletes use. You are better off ignoring with the doctor says to you and just doing your normal activities but taking extra care, and if you go to the gym, lowering weights and doing less reps.Don't be stupid and try for personal bests or anything.
Ignoring doctors advice only applies to these situations though,I would never advocate it when it comes to illness.
I think resting just holds up recovery I personally would only rest right now if I broke my leg.
So I was dreading doing my legs, 5 sets of 12 squats and 5 sets of 12 lunges, 12 lunges on each leg. so that make 24 per set. And to start with I felt it but by the end dripping with sweat and wanting to throw up and I had no pain at all, and today my knee is actually not hurting at all .
Doctors are bloody useless regarding sports injuries, Iam talking about your average GP, all they say is rest and ICE been there done that. One told me to 'rest a groin strain', rested it for two weeks went back to the gym,did something very light on my legs and restrained it even worse so I walked home like I had been booted in the balls.
And in my experience all physios do is take your money. When I badly strained both my wrists in a fight(don't ask... fighting drunk in the street),I went to this physio recommended by my doctor, and while she was very good looking, and I kind of enjoyed the pain she put me through a month later, my wrists were still so fukked I couldn't even open my front door or flush the toilet without someone doing it for me. They weren't broke, as xrays said there weren't according to the doc.
What helped.,I just went back to the gym and fought through the pain doing my usual exercises but lighter weights, within a week I was much better.
So this is my view and it's up to you if you follow it and potentially makes things worse or better. you have been to the docs and according to the doc it is a muscle sprain, nothing else. training related probably. Unless you have loads of cash and can afford the best sports physios and doctors in the local area, Iam talking who the professional athletes use. You are better off ignoring with the doctor says to you and just doing your normal activities but taking extra care, and if you go to the gym, lowering weights and doing less reps.Don't be stupid and try for personal bests or anything.
Ignoring doctors advice only applies to these situations though,I would never advocate it when it comes to illness.
I think resting just holds up recovery I personally would only rest right now if I broke my leg.
Deer antler velvet.
Just kidding. Rest, ice and ibuprofin. Really, I don't even bother with doctors when I get injured, at first. I just give it rest first. Why pay money to have a doctor to tell me to rest and ice it and come back if it is still hurting?
Anyway, I will go to an orthopaedic surgeon, skip my primary doctor, if I'm still experiencing pain after a sports related injury. That's usually from a major jacked-up injury, e.g. ACL torn. They are more in-tune with the kind of injury you have from playing sports. I went to a primary physician for years from shoulder pain and dude just gave me cortisone shots which worked, but didn't get to the root cause, which was a torn labrum which my orthopaedic surgeon discovered.
Pain is your body's way of saying "hey nikka dont do that we got a problem". Ignoring that, regardless of how you feel about doctors is fukking idiotic.
"Fighting through the pain" is about the worst thing you can do... taking a week or even a month or even a couple of months off of an injured body part won't kill you. Probably the best thing you can do actually. Nobody is impressed by "toughness" and when that toughness results in a debilitating injury people will just
I have had plenty of injuries and time off has always, always helped. Broken bones, strains, pec tears etc. There is nothing wrong with taking time off. Fitness is a long term thing, a few hiccups here and there won't stop you if you address them properly, which often means time off for injuries.
"Fighting through the pain" is about the worst thing you can do... taking a week or even a month or even a couple of months off of an injured body part won't kill you. Probably the best thing you can do actually. Nobody is impressed by "toughness" and when that toughness results in a debilitating injury people will just
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I try telling peeps this but they never listen...Pain is your body's way of saying "hey nikka dont do that we got a problem". Ignoring that, regardless of how you feel about doctors is fukking idiotic.
"Fighting through the pain" is about the worst thing you can do... taking a week or even a month or even a couple of months off of an injured body part won't kill you. Probably the best thing you can do actually. Nobody is impressed by "toughness" and when that toughness results in a debilitating injury people will just
I have had plenty of injuries and time off has always, always helped. Broken bones, strains, pec tears etc. There is nothing wrong with taking time off. Fitness is a long term thing, a few hiccups here and there won't stop you if you address them properly, which often means time off for injuries.
All I know is, just off personal experience, with the several injuries I have had , wrist, groin and shoulder on different occasions, 'resting' didn't do jack. It's not about 'toughness' or ego, Iam someone who believes in volume training serge nubret is who I try to emulate with my training , rather than pushing weight to impress people , all bodies and people are different as is their training. Iam just giving an alternative view. I have no qualifications in this, just going off my experience and also others in my gym. Not that qualifications mean much in the iron game, doctors are not the best people to give advice about bodybuilding related injuries in my opinion ,the best people to speak to are experienced trainers. Like with my groin, resting actually made things much worse ,as the less I did the tighter it got so I could hardly walk to the shops. I hobbled down the gym and the guy who runs it who competed in a mr universe alongside arnold, although not in his weight class, told me to start training my legs with very light weights, and not to stretch my legs as I normally do as the state I was in walking there was a serious warmup and stretching could make it worse.
I did what he said, and the only exercise I was banned from doing was lunges, and within a week things had improved. And a month after I was using my normal weights again on my lower body. Several months later I started doing lunges again, with him watching my form this time and I have never touch wood had that problem with my groin again.
A sprain is a sprain, doesn't matter whether it's from bodybuilding or slipping on ice. People got sprains and injuries before bodybuilding and doctors have been treating those injuries from before bodybuilding. From that point of view doctors DO know best how to handle injuries. You google any kind of muscle sprain, the treatment will pretty much always be "RICE and if the pain is severe seek medical attention". Owner of your gym might be a genius or he might be a fukking idiot. And even if he is a genius, he doesn't know exactly what your injury is. You could sprain something or you could tear something, odds are he would prob give you the same advice. Doctors at least are held to some standard and have centuries of empirical evidence/the scientific method behind their shyt.
I'll ask you again... what do you LOSE from resting? A couple weeks of gains out of a few DECADES of training? To me that seems better than, say, aggravating an injury to the point that it needs surgery or never works right again.... which is a definite possibility with "just powering through". You seem to have a beef with doctors and take pride in latching onto the idea that you know more than them or that they don't know what they're talking about... you don't
... so I don't want brehs hearing your off the wall ideas, going out and injuring themselves. Your groin injury for example, whether you "powered through" or rested it would have kept you from "going to the shops" because it was that severe. You have no proof that had you rested another week that it wouldn't have got better on its own, or got better faster. So stop.Brehs, when in doubt with an injury... REST. Further doubt? SEE A DOCTOR. Don't try to be a hero
Resting is the best thing you can do. Take a week or two off and see how you feel. I strained my knee i early January playing basketball. I wore a knee sleeve, didn't workout or hoop and took some muscle relxaers the urgent care doctor prescribed and I was back at 100% three weeks after the injury
StretfordRed
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Had a slight tear/strain in my bicep and the only thing was rest.
It's annoying but it needs to be done. I think some gentle and very light benching e.g. With the bar only is ok after about two weeks. But you don't want to rush it
It's annoying but it needs to be done. I think some gentle and very light benching e.g. With the bar only is ok after about two weeks. But you don't want to rush it
Also gotta figure out what caused the injury. Sometimes sprains can be caused by bad form or overtraining.
Adam3000
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The mere fact that you were on a steroid cycle immediately invalidates any advice you have for someone who is not on a steroid cycle. Your body doesnt operate under the same rules.
The internet is a dangerous place for advice brehs