POST TREATMENT TIPS

Letting Your Body Recover

Post treatment is just as important as pre treatment because it is all about prevention, typically known as prehab.  This is to keep your body from becoming injured.

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Like anything less is more. You need your body to regenerate so it has adequate rest and recovery, especially after treatment. If your body is still recovering from an injury then you need to be smart in how you manage it. You may need to use a combination of things such as ice or heat and even use certain topical creams to reduce inflammation. Even if you are fit and healthy and if you feel like there is something that is stiff and tight or not moving effectively or is starting to give you a niggle here and there then that’s why we would use the Active Release techniques to provide a preventative solution to these problems and even improve athletic performance. 

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Hydration
Another big factor his hydration and keeping your electrolytes and salt levels up to prevent muscle cramps or muscle strains, which will also help with recovery and better performance.

 

Nutrition
Good nutrition making sure your body is getting the right in take of good nutrition so that it feeds all those cells and keeps our energy stores up so we don’t deplete our energy stores.

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Keep Moving!

Also to move and stretch but not over stretch but most importantly is to be mobile and to even use things like foam rollers and trigger points balls just in case you start to feel tight in those problem muscles again.

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Training Your Body

Post exercise is important because our body needs constant reminding of what it is designed to do. If we have a back pain and it has been treated say with ART and feels great afterwards which is great but if you then sit for 8 hrs per day or in some cases even longer your back once again is going to suffer, especially when your core muscles are no longer engaged therefore you are at a greater risk once again of hurting your back. So if you are doing some sort of physical activity or you have a good exercise program then I would advice you to keep that going because it is all about prevention and staying fit and healthy.