Alternative Medicine

Amateur and professional athletes alike both know that injury comes hand in hand with sports. Sports by its very nature are geared to push the limits of individuals to remain competitive. As boundaries are pushed, limits will be crossed. This is when injuries happen. However, the body is very resilient and with the help of the physical therapy programs recovery times are minimal. These advanced therapy programs build a regimen of activities to restore health and vitality to the affected areas. Many programs require the use of exercise equipment, massage chairs and stretching elements.

You may have just undergone surgery. Or you may be hurt but can recover without surgery. The physical therapist must be able to handle a wide variety of situations for their patients. They are going to design a specific regimen for you to follow. Their goals are to restore flexibility and also to help strengthen the injured or stressed areas. Your therapist is an expert in the make up of the muscle and skeletal systems. They also must know about typical surgery procedures. This helps them understand how scar tissue may form deeper within the body. You will use exercise equipment and perhaps a massage chair to help you heal the injury.

If you are a professional athlete, then your goals are going to be different than if you play sport occasionally. Your physical therapist will consult with you on a direction and time line that fits your needs. An athlete needs quick recovery and to restore maximum flexibility and strength. Whereas the occasional player may take more time to fully recover. In either case, you will be put through stretching, massage, exercise and more. You will get to use various exercise equipment, massage chairs, free weights and more. These are important tools in the therapist’s recovery arsenal.

One of the key areas when you start is to make your muscles more pliable. When an injury occurs, the body immobilizes the affected area. Your body has redundant systems for most everything. If your leg is injured, it will want the other leg to take over. The body does not want the injured leg used and tries to shut it down to heal it. This is good, but your muscles become stiff and tight. They actually hurt when you start to bend them. Stretching is an important part of the physical therapy routine to build back flexibility.

When you are injured, your body knows to shift work to other areas that are not affected. So certain areas are not used for most activities. The muscles that are not used will atrophy. They will start to lose strength. The body adapts to the situation. To reverse this process, your therapist will start you on an exercise program. The exercise program is usually designed to start off slow, but steady. The program may work muscle groups together or may work on individual muscles. The treatments are designed to bring all the elements together for full strength recover.

Some of the problems encountered in the physical recovery process are scar tissue. Scar tissue forms harder than the original tissue. This needs recurring kneading and pressing massage to restore flexibility. The muscle tissue breaks down into shorter lengths when physically stressed. The muscles tissues need the fibers to be elongated to restore further flexibility. Massage therapy targets these two important areas. Some physical therapy clinics use massage therapists and may also use massage chairs. In either case, the focus is on increasing the longer term flexibility. Massage therapy is effective in loosening the muscles and scar tissue while increasing the blood and nutrient flow accelerate the healing process.

If you push your limits, you may sometimes go too far and suffer an injury. Or they may just happen. Either way, you just want to be fully recovered. The physical therapies being offered utilize top notch technology and methodologies. From massage chair recliners to treadmills, you will be exposed to a range of treatments designed for your full recovery.

Hopefully you do not require Physical Therapy, but if you do then find out what massage therapy most benefits you. A massage chair can be an excellent asset in your health. Massage Chair Therapy offers many techniques

So, am I telling a joke? What is the connection between spraying something up your nose and running better? How in the world can there be a connection between saline nasal spray and running faster? I must say it does sound like a joke, but I mean it in all sincerity!

How can this be you might ask? Well it is a kind of interesting story and to tell it I’m going to digress a little bit into some neat stuff we have been learning about running. I am an instructor in what is called “Chi Running” and one of the things we do with Chi Running is study how to run with the best energy conversation and decreasing the odds of any kind of an injury.

Lots of people every year get an injury of some sort while they are running. My goal as a Chi Running instructor is to eliminate these injuries and eliminate the setting that caused the injuries. One of the surprising things that has come up through the study of breathing is that how you breath can really affect the likelihood of an injury. So how is this all connected?

Admittedly the connection between breathing and injury is indirect but it is still very real. When you breath through your nose while you run you kind of set the equivalent of a governor on your system. You can only run so fast or push yourself so hard before you have to open up your mouth and start breathing harder. When you open up your mouth to start breathing harder you will tend to faster—-going faster when you are getting tired can increase your injury rate. Here’s another neat thing- when you run breathing through your nose your heart rate is slower! So you will slow down getting that sense of fatigue if you keep your heart rate slower.

So what does this have to do with Saline Nasal Solution that can be used as a Nasal Spray? Simple. Lots of people have subtle or not so subtle congestion issues in their nose. That makes it artificially harder to breath through their nose, so they start gasping through their mouth, run faster than they ought to and increase the risk for an injury! If they can use a saline nasal spray before and during the run they can keep their nose more clear and improve the odds that they can continue more of the run breathing completely through the nose!

So if you can help a person breath through their nose while they are running, it is less likely that they will have an injury which means that in the end they are going to go faster while they are running because they are not dealing with injuries. And the very best way to help a person become a “nose breather” while they are running is by using our nasal saline solution which can also be made into a saline nasal spray which can be used while running. I find this connection to be fascinating and so very true.

Learn more about saline nasal spray. Stop by Dr Stanley Lang’s site where you can find out all about saline nasal solution and what it can do for you.

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