Injury Treatment

No matter how much you try you cannot avoid (micro)injuries. It’s part of everyday life. I’ve been recently having very painful feeling in my left shoulder. I know when exactly it started and probably why as well. Now the question is – how you treat physical injury / issue?
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Standard approach would be something like painkiller, doctor, rehabilitation, rest, ice, massage – repeat everything until…? However if our body doesn’t work as it should, we cannot expect somebody or something to fix us from outside. The treatment must comes from inside. I prefer different approach – ACTIVE WORK ON INJURED AREA. It exactly opposite as usual recommendation of “resting” and waiting for… what for?
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I’ve been having this shoulder issue for 3 weeks now. For the first 2 I didn’t do any intentional work on it. I was only trying to not use it and “rest it”. It didn’t get any better, I even had days when it felt much worse. For the third week I started each day simple 5-10 minutes routine with elastic band and after only few days my shoulder is 90% fine now. I believe one more week of rehabilitation work and it’s 100%.
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I believe in concept of ACTIVE WORK because it makes sense to me. It’s extremely simple – when there is an injury, the area is weak. When you don’t use something (rest) it will get even weaker. So to heal injury you need to do exact opposite – USE IT. However USE IT doesn’t mean exercise it = no strength work, no end-range mobility drills, no ring routines, etc. Use it means to bring the blood to the injured area, work in the range of 15%-25% of your normal abilities. Experience discomfort, but not pain. The most important for this process is to do active work daily.
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And what about you? How you usually deal with an injury? Let me know and maybe I could help >> 📩
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