When my clients get injured they tend to look for a specific reason.
When my clients get injured they tend to look for a specific reason. A moment in time that their body let them down. In all cases however, although identifying the point of injury may help a healthcare professional get a diagnosis, it does not generally help guide treatment, or truly explain the injury. It’s a snapshot in time, however your injury started to occur, in some cases, years before.
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I regularly see incorrect technique in the gym, or even whilst watching runners out for their morning jog.
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They finish their exercise and think they did well, they might have deadlifted huge weights or run further or faster and so their impression is they are getting better…however that disc in their lower back didn’t like it as their lower back rounded off slightly…or that meniscus in their knee suffered another pounding at the hands of their collapsing arches in their feet.
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Your body is very good at compensating and so these dysfunctions may go on for years until they become apparent to you as pain, a disc injury or osteoarthritis of the knee in these two cases.
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Just because you got away with it doesn’t mean your dysfunction won’t catch up with you eventually. You’ll only really become aware of these dysfunctions by exposing your movement practice and asking yourself if you really have what it takes or whether you are on borrowed time…let’s hope the injury isn’t permanent.
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What exercise do you do? Have you considered whether your body is up for the challenge or are you training on borrowed time?
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