The age-old response to someone in pain or who has an injury is to just go lay down and rest. However, rest is not the answer. Rest does not help us heal. Rest does not ease our pain.
Traditionally, the Biomechanical Model was referred to when dealing with patients in pain. The Biomechanical Model is the practice of treating pain as the equivalent of mechanical dysfunction. We now use the BPS model, or Biological, Physiological, and Social model...
Everyone is told that foam rolling and manual therapy breaks up tissue, however, the evidence says otherwise.
What stretching does do: -Temporarily increases viscoelastic properties of the muscle up to 1 hour after stretch.
I have teamed up with Dr. Joe Camoratto to address many myths that we and our patients have encountered in the rehab industry.
These myths are some of the most common beliefs in rehab. Much of what the industry “knows” is not what evidence backs up to today.
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