Exercise Strategies for Injury Rehabilitation

You’ve been given the clear from your doctor to get back to your sport. Naturally, you’re excited and looking forward to getting back at it. However, our instinctive response to getting clear often consists of these questions: how do we return safely? How can I get back to where I was before my injury and do so without getting reinjured?

Here are a few research-based exercise strategies to implement when rehabbing an injury to ensure you get back to your pre-injury performance levels:

Start Light:

When we are given the okay from our doctors, we incline to pick up where we left off before getting injured. However, dysfunctional movement patterns are potentially what got you injured in the first place. Returning to such patterns with a high intensity immediately is asking to become re-injured. Start light, work on form, and progress slowly over time with proper movement patterns. (1)

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