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Dos and Don’ts When Stretching after an Injury
By: Greg Dalby
Know your limitations when stretching with an injury. Know the dos and don’ts.
Training injuries are inevitable. When pushing yourself to new fitness boundaries, you are bound to experience an injury at some point. Of course, accepting that fact is not necessarily a license to become reckless. You want to train as safely as you can in order to stay in the gym but off the bench. That’s half of the battle.
The other half of the battle is knowing the right steps to take when you have sustained an injury. Some coaches will tell you that you need to stretch an injury to encourage it to recover more quickly. But when you consider that some injuries occur because a muscle is stretched beyond its natural limits, this advice begins to sound pretty useless or even detrimental.
In this article, we are going to discuss the right steps to take involving stretching when you have an injury. Aside from stretching, one of the most effective and easiest measures to take when dealing with an injury is to use recovery wear. Like stretching, compression gear has the ability to increase blood flow to the affected area which helps those tissues to heal. Compression gear should be in every athlete’s toolbox, as recovering from hard training sessions is just as important as performing the session…
