Fitness

A place to talk about fitness and health on Farcaster.

How long do sprains take to heal to the extent that you don’t feel them any longer? A long fucking time. 

I fought a car at ETH Denver and earned a sprained wrist. I gave the PT very high, consistent daily attention for 5 months. I had ~90% range of motion back by 3 months. It’s now 8 months and it’s the first time I’ve been able to hold a handstand fully waited without pain, still at about 97% on recovery. 

No alcohol, great sleep and diet, no processed sugar, well hydrated, 8 months to < 100% 

Without attention and discipline, a simple sprain can become a lifelong injury

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I just remembered your cast from a few weeks ago about going was it sky diving with your kid and friends kid
You did that with a sprained wrist?
And even everything you’ve been doing lately, you mean you’ve been doing all that with a sprained wrist?
That’s pretty amazing

I think a lot of perception is that an athlete is 100% most of the time, the reality is most athletes are competing with some type of injury as they’re giving it their all. It’s just part of it though, and counterintuitively it’s part of what drives recovery. Use it or lose it

All of the recovery data says active recovery is the right way to heal, what’s left out of that is placebo, or as i like to think of it, the amount of influence your mind can have over that scenario. In the case of injury as you point out, it’s rather large. If we allow our mind to go to the negative space we literally change the mix of hormones being released, which absolutely have an impact on recovery, good or bad. 

I’ve never seen someone handle pain well and focus on it in a negative way, on the other hand I’ve seen others and have myself gone through surgery with only local anesthesia, all that it took was remaining calm and there was no pain. 

Your mind loves to fire signals you’re willing to actively pay attention to. This is mostly good but pain is the place where you might want to know how to shift the internal signal attention to elsewhere

Talking about perception 
I also think the perception in mind of the athlete also plays a huge role 
What I mean is if you don’t think of the fact that you’re injured or there’s pain and work through it, you heal faster 
I might be wrong though