Regular physical exertion through exercise, fitness at home, sports activities, or tuning your muscles at a gym are recommendations for health and long life. We evolved to be upright, bipedal beings with increased muscle density to hunt and survive.
The ease of shopping for food or ordering Grab has removed the physical activities of hunting and gathering our nourishment. Our diets are important and what we put in our bodies should be clean and beneficial, but you can not eat yourself to physical fitness.
We know this and we exercise as we should but eventually, stains and injuries will happen. When our favourite healthy pastime is limited due to discomfort our fitness can suffer. Discussing how to cure tennis elbow, golfers elbow, tendonitis, lower back strain, shoulder impingements, ankle strains, and shin splints could take hours.
I find the easiest mess to clean up is one that never happens. Preventative measures such as stretching warm muscles, avoiding fatigued exercise, wearing good shoes, and obtaining strong core muscles with floor exercises at home can help you avoid injuries.
I treated myself to an MCL injury from fatigued training on a long-distance run, on old shoes in extremely hot weather. There were a number of things I could have avoided to save months of pain and repair. Make healthy choices while being healthy.
Home remedies such as ice packs, heat pads, supports, and pain or anti-inflammatory medicines will help to mitigate pain and discomfort while your body repairs itself. Immobilisation of the afflicted limb or joint can be taxing on your day-to-day activities, but it is essential for scar tissue build-up and long-term repair.
Medical science technology advancements have given us various therapies and treatments for injury recovery, including electromagnetic pulse treatments that manipulate cell behaviour and improve blood supply & oxygen pressure to affected areas.
Ice packs work at home, and your therapist will have cold therapy treatments of greater intensity to constrict blood vessels and block pain signals to the brain. Compression therapy is used to encourage fluid movement. Similar to an elastic support, but with increased focus, compression therapy will force the pumping of vital repairing fluids to injuries and strains.
Classic Thai massage uses stretching, joint manipulations, and pressure points to realign energy meridians and wake your body up. The massage therapist I visit is strong and pushes my pain envelope at times, but I feel excellent afterwards. I like hot stone treatments, but not hot oil. What style of massage do you prefer?
Traditional Thai medicine in this field has been retained, practiced, and passed down for hundreds of years. You will be assisted into yoga-like postures to stretch. With gentle rocking motions, they use their hands, elbows, feet, and knees to remove tension in your muscles.
Whatever you do to yourself to keep fit can be repaired. Our bodies are amazing self-healing machines. Do not jump back into your fitness routine at the same level of intensity as movement increases and pain decreases. A slow path to peak performance is needed for longevity of wellness.
