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79 - The Key to Accelerated Recovery from Injury
What if your mindset could be the missing piece in accelerating your injury recovery? Join us for a compelling discussion on why some recoveries seem to stall and how your approach might be the key to breaking through. We promise you'll walk away with actionable insights on the common roadblocks of injury recovery, such as the overlooked importance of a solid rehabilitation commitment and the impact of proper guidance.
In this episode, we uncover the secrets to optimizing your healing process. Discover the potential of BPC-157 and how whole-body healing, including proper nutrition and lifestyle adjustments, can make a world of difference. Learn from a fascinating case study of a determined soccer player whose intense training regimen inadvertently led to injury, and find out how re-evaluating lifestyle choices can prevent future setbacks. We emphasize the need for respecting your body's unique anatomy and understanding functional movements to enhance your physical resilience.
Finally, we shift focus to the power of mindset in the recovery journey. Hear how balancing training with rest can dramatically enhance your performance and overall well-being. We challenge the misconception that more is always better and highlight how a positive outlook, coupled with realistic expectations, can be a game-changer for recovery, especially with long-term injuries like ACL tears. Celebrate progress over perfection with us and discover how a simple shift in perspective can energize not only your recovery but other life goals as well.
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Hey guys, welcome to episode 79, episode 79 of the Unfiltered Health Podcast. Today we're actually going to dive into why you're not bouncing back from your injury. So if recovery feels a little bit slower than expected, if you feel like you're stuck in a rut, then this episode is going to be for you. We're going to break down the common roadblocks and we're going to give you some practical tips around how to get on back on track let's get into it.
Speaker 2:Yeah, let's do it. We've got a bunch of lists like a bunch of things here injury previous to present involved. Let's maybe talk about this, about what could be happening. Like, once you get injured, they're most likely either you've suffered some traumatic incident where that you've got an injury now, or you've had this pre-existing injury before and it's just a reoccurring thing and it's maybe getting worse. So, in terms of why you might not be bouncing back from injury, if we just have a look at it, plain and simply, what was the scenario? What actually happened?
Speaker 1:I think we need to have a look at that and how it's evolved I think one of the most um common reasons why people don't bounce back is because, like just real simple is, they don't do do the work, they don't put in the work that is required or the rehab that is required for them to bounce back.
Speaker 2:Um, I think another one might be that they don't have the right guidance guidance to prevent the injury or guidance in terms of before bounce back from the injury. Okay, oh, okay. So how to? Yeah, okay.
Speaker 1:Yeah, yeah, I think that's probably like for me. They're one of the most two common reasons why I see people. Don't bounce People, oh I can't speak today why I see people not bouncing back from an injury, number one being because they are just not doing doing the work, number two being they haven't had the right guidance.
Speaker 2:I think, um, the bounce back maybe was a little bit of a um grab, grab, grabby phrase today, because obviously no one's necessarily going to bounce back in a week or two weeks on an injury. But I do think, yeah, you're right, if you don't have the right education, right tools, right resources and are not applying them, or you can't expect that the injury is just going to go away or get better by itself, I do think there's a time and place where it does need to heal, like when you tear, tear something, um, and you can't actually physically move it like higher than your shoulder. If you're thinking about, like a shoulder joint, a shoulder tear, um, like an acl or an ac joint, something like that, would you agree, steph?
Speaker 1:I don't really know much about yeah, I would say the injuries where you have to stop or you genuinely have to rest is probably like a broken bone or like a fracture. Yeah, okay, um, dislocation if you have a soft tissue injury, so a muscular tear strain. Getting back into movement is going to be the best thing, so the quicker the better. But in saying that it's all based on the best thing, so the quicker the better, but in saying that it's all based on how they're feeling and what they can do. So you know example if someone has torn their shoulder or rotator cuff and they can't lift their arm overhead because it gives them too much pain, cool, they might not be ready for that, but we still want to get them moving, so they still might be able to move, you know, from zero to 90 degrees.
Speaker 2:So we start loading them in that position and we start getting them moving there until we can slowly build them is there a time frame where that should be like good, it should be done, like you have three months and it should be done by then, or like six weeks? If you do all of this, xyz, every single day, five times a week, whatever it is the prescription, you should be sweet. Is there like a a timeline?
Speaker 1:yeah, there's, I guess, general like guidelines, and the guidelines would be um the time it takes for the injury to heal, or the repair to heal, like, for example, if you've got a grade one hamstring tear, then for the actual tear to heal it can take between one to four weeks, okay, um, and then if it's a worse, if it's a type of a second tear or um, my words are so jumbled grade two, did you grade two?
Speaker 2:I was like the grade ones, but maybe the next one's grade two.
Speaker 1:Oh my gosh common sense. If it's a grade two, then, um, it'll be like between six to twelve weeks and vice versa. So there's guidelines and we call them guidelines because you might heal a lot quicker, you might respond a lot quicker or it might take you a little bit longer, depending on how bad it is. Okay, but we do need to um respect that there is time that needs to be taken for the actual tissue or the bone to heal before really pushing it. So the early stages of a tear there are certain things you're obviously going to avoid, like, for example, week one of a hamstring tear. You're not going to um recommend sprinting, yeah, no, you're not going to recommend um jumping or bouncing or change direction really quickly so there are certain this criteria where you say, okay, week one, we're not going to do that.
Speaker 1:But you know, if it's a grade one tear and you're feeling good by week three, then we probably are going to introduce some slow running and then get you back into your sprinting.
Speaker 2:Yeah, okay, I'm trying to think of an example of when you would need months like months of recovery and months of work on it.
Speaker 1:That would probably be like a broken bone. That's definitely going to be months, An ACL or a meniscus that's going to take months yeah meniscus for sure. Shoulder injury as well. That can take months and that could be like shoulder bursitis or damage to the AC joint or even a rotator cuff tear frozen joint.
Speaker 2:I'll say that one of my friends has had reoccurring bursitis in her shoulder for the last 18 months yeah and she's working with physio and I've suggested to come see you, in fact and even osteo, like just to do some other work on it and get a second third opinion. She's like, I've had the second third opinions and it's not like she will heal, and then it'll re-tear, it'll heal and, oh sorry, it'll burst, and she's having this constant issue flare up. What would, what would you say if you're working on it and then it's happening again? Are you not working on it correctly?
Speaker 1:it could be that you may not be working on it correctly. You may not be conditioning or strengthening your shoulder muscles surrounding it to support it better, you may be ignoring things that are irritating it. So if the shoulders, if the shoulder joint has become overloaded, something's not doing its job and if we're not addressing what's not doing its job, then it's always going to be overloaded or it'll always go back to the same movement pattern it did before, and then the cycle will repeat okay.
Speaker 2:So the advice for her would be to heal it but also overload it in the advice for her would probably be like well, what's the thing that's aggravating it?
Speaker 1:what can't you do at the moment and what feels really good to do? So stuff that feels really good to do, cool, stick with that. The stuff that doesn't feel good to do or keeps aggravating it, well, we've got to create a plan where we can flip that and eventually the shoulder can be can now tolerate it yeah, okay, this is why you're the pain expert which is bursitis can be hard, it can be um, having shoulder bursitis can be a long recovery, depending on how bad it is, depending on how much pain there is.
Speaker 1:There's also a lot of things to consider, I guess, with shoulder stuff that's often overlooked in regards to, like, the rib cage and breathing. Okay. So I tend to look at if there's a shoulder issue. I tend to look at rib cage function, how they're breathing, because the shoulder blade is directly, sits directly on top of the rib cage. So if the rib cage cannot function and move and the shape of the rib cage isn't right, then the way the shoulder blade sits on the rib cage is not going to be right either. So that all goes hand in hand.
Speaker 2:I'm going to tell her to listen to this episode then so she can hear your advice and be like all right, I'll go through that um the so that these are some considerations, obviously, that we're just going through like in very general, but also quite specific in terms of different injuries that you might have, the audience and listeners might have. But I think it would also be important because we also have got our list here to consider other things that may also be reducing your recovery time and that could be the food intake and quality. I do feel like those who do have an injury and it's a little bit off food but alcohol, alcohol, who do drink a lot of alcohol, really don't get a proper recovery for the injuries. I don't know what it is. Well, obviously, alcohol is a poison and it increases inflammation in the body. So I don't think that if you do have an injury, I would highly suggest personally not to have any alcohol and really make sure you're improving your water intake and food intake and really prioritizing protein intake, because you're going to help a lot more.
Speaker 2:Well, obviously, when you injure yourself, you're going to have an immune response and then if you want to support the immune response. You want to have more protein to supplement that, right, so I'd be doing that and also just looking at some supplements like maybe some creatine, maybe some magnesium, um, other things like what's it called b? I don't know if you've heard this before. It's like bhp 170, something like that. I forget what it's called, but james had an injury recently and we found this supplement and I've heard people talk about it before in the naturopathy world and we found it. It was so much. It was like $300 for about 120 caps yeah, something like that, 90 caps and he felt so much better in two weeks what properties did it have in it?
Speaker 1:like what? What was in green?
Speaker 2:it's, it's a, it's a it's. Let's see, have a look at it.
Speaker 1:Let me research this yeah, because I can't say I've heard of that before I think it's almost like oh, what's it called?
Speaker 2:I don't want to say anything, that's gonna come out wrong bpc, bpc 1570. It's a peptide, that's right. Uh-huh, okay, so a peptide is going to. Well. It's amino acid, right? Yeah so it's going to build the necessary proteins to go to the site and help with the elasticity, the collagen, whatever else needs to go into there. I'm not the expert, but the peptide is going to do its job and be part of like recovery yeah cool yeah, okay, that I haven't heard of, I guess it.
Speaker 1:Just it just highlights that if you do have an injury, the injury and healing that injury isn't just about you know, looking at isolated the musculoskeletal system in terms of all the the muscles just got to take a couple of heal and then I can get get back into it. It's like no, it's a whole body healing response. So, putting yourself in a situation where you're eating crap, you're drinking crap and then your body is not healing, well then that's why because you're not fueling it right, you're not fueling it in a way that is going to support the healing process and help speed it up.
Speaker 2:Exactly so yeah, that's something to consider. I also just want to rephrase it it's BPC-157. You probably can get it off iHerb or somewhere else in the market. I don't. Actually, I think they wanted to pull it from the actual pharmaceuticals in store because they wanted to make it less accessible because it is so good. It has had such good um effects on people, yeah, which is obviously. We know how the industry works, but a little sneaky one there yeah, I'm gonna look into this though yeah, do please.
Speaker 2:I think yeah it's. It's like a superhuman, super, super, sup, um. The other thing we had on here was training history and I think also to consider is like the way you train and the way you move and how you move when I get like I know you do this as well. When you have someone come into you and they say they've got an injury, you kind of assess their posture already and you kind of have a look at like how they walk, how they stand, are theyouching? Is one side dominating? How do they move? Like there's different tests.
Speaker 2:I know you have and I've got my own simple body weight test that I might do but the way someone currently moves in their own body weight is very telling of how they're going to move when you add load. So when people come to us and like I don't want to get injured, I'm scared of getting injured. What I already say is we're not going to put you in a position where you're going to have an injury occur from this movement. We're going to make sure that we're moving in accordance to how you move, but make it better and slowly and slowly but surely, things will get better over time. As you understand, respect your anatomy, because if you don't respect your anatomy, you don't respect how you subconsciously sit down all day, hold your bag, lift things, move things, bend down, touch your toes, squat like those little things under body weight and like the functional stuff I guess we call it. They are very telling of what's going to happen to you If you do do something that's extreme extreme like extreme sport or not.
Speaker 2:Even if you just go on the tennis court and roll your ankle, if you go out to play something and run around and slip, like it's very telling that, okay, something could happen here. So let's kind of give you the best chance at moving properly. So once you've injured the site, it's obviously a lot longer to get back to a normal way of moving. I would say, like I would say, most people don't move normally. The way you walk in shoes and the way people flap their feet, I think it's super important. Um, so if you're not bouncing back, let's start. Let's start back from where you currently are the body weight you cut out for ages.
Speaker 1:Hey no, you, you, it was funny because your face froze, but you still kept talking. So I just like, I was like, oh wait, your face froze too. And I was like, oh, it all worked out, it was fine. But to add to that, um, looking at the like you know, your training history, when clients do come in and they have an injury, just say it's just happened. I will, before even looking at the way they move, I will have a conversation around their current training schedule, what they're currently doing, just to kind of give me a better understanding as to how they got there, how they got injured, um, and a really good example of this is I had a client who was playing soccer and injured his hamstring and, um, he came in and he said to me you know, I don't understand how I've done this.
Speaker 1:I train hard, I go to the gym, I do all my running. Um, you know, I thought that I was actually really strong, I thought that I, you know, I wouldn't have torn my hamstrings. So it doesn't really make sense. And we had a big conversation around well, what does his week look like, what's his work, what's his sleep levels, what is his training like? And it worked out to be that he was training six days a week, so it was, I think, whoa, four days soccer and then two days gym. Okay, uh, work was crazy. So he was probably getting four hours sleep, minimum, uh, maximum four hours sleep. Wow, he sleep four hours. And his training at the gym was crazy. Like he was going like really heavy on like rdl squats. Sometimes he'd do like double, double leg um leg extensions and then he'd go and do a single leg leg extension and then the day after that he would play his soccer game. What so? All this is nuts to me in terms of why he's injured himself in the first place. And we broke it down and I gave it to him. In a way I said you know, let's have a look at this. You sleep four hours of sleep. You know, for an athlete, someone that trains are hard, we need basically 10 hours of good, solid sleep, but we'll take seven or eight. So that's number one. I go then with your training, you're going hard at the um, at soccer, you're running like crazy, so your hamstrings are already so fatigued and so tired. And then you're going to the gym, you're smashing rdls, you're smashing leg extensions, you're doing single leg leg extensions. You do basically everything you can and then a day later you're then playing and he kind of stopped and he was like shit, yeah, okay, like that makes sense and like it's not because you weren't doing you know the things you were supposed to. It was because your recovery was really bad and you were doing too much, and so it's.
Speaker 1:I think it's always important that, yeah, when clients do come in with an injury that's just happened I, before even looking at them, before even assessing them, I always look at their training history and their lifestyle to see, well, okay, what's currently, what is their current lifestyle and how has this potentially led them to have the injury? So then part of their rehab process is not just we've got to rehab your hamstring. Rehab process is we've got to improve your sleep, we've got to reduce your training load, we've got to make you work a little bit smarter in the gym so you're not fatigued for your training or for your games, and so then it becomes like a proper tailored rehab plan where we're looking at the body holistically and their life instead of just, you know, isolated or you're, you know you injured a hamstring, hamstring, so we're just going to do hamstring exercises yeah, it doesn't like when you injure something from that like that site, it might not be that site.
Speaker 2:That is the problem. That's what you're trying to say. I think that's really holistic and like that's why we both have joined up on the podcast. We say this all the time because we're very similar in like what we're looking at and understanding that the lifestyle analysis is so pivotal into getting better results in just general and being able to move through life's ups and downs, because, inevitably, like we might hurt ourselves like I've hurt my neck and it's only starting to get better in the last four weeks um, not feel it so much like there's so there's things that will happen.
Speaker 2:And even when you are fit and when you are doing all the things that you think you're supposed to be doing right, there might be something that you aren't and it's most likely because we're human and we're not fucking perfect and that's okay. So I think just take a step out and understand that if you are injured, if you are unwell, if something is bothering, you get it looked at and have someone who has this perspective and maybe the things that we're saying is relating to you and you're feeling like okay, maybe I am pushing myself too much, like there are people who come to me as well who are training six times a week and I'm like why? I'm like, oh, I just thought, like I'm bored, I want to do it, like I okay, you might be bored, is there something else that you could do that also might elicit that feeling of training, but it's not directly training because you know you need recovery. Like recovery is underrated. We might not necessarily think that you need to completely rest on like a grade one injury that you is that what you called it grade one tear injury, um, but on something bigger scale, look, there might be that necessity that you have to just pause for a little bit and take more consideration of what you can versus can't, what feels good and what doesn't, like you said.
Speaker 2:But on the ones that you can do things on, like let's just have a look at, let's have a look at everything, let's pull back so we don't have to go through the ringer of extremes. Like no one needs to go to extremes. Rest a little bit, train hard. The more you rest, the more you can do things. You probably find the harder you can train, because those people who are training three, four times a week of their legs and it's back to back. You can't train harder than that. You have nothing left to give and if you're sleeping four hours like that guy, I feel sorry for him because he's trying to probably get stronger and faster and quicker and better, but he can't like you physically cannot.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 1:And there's a whole element to it as well. You know you're. If you are someone that's dealing with an injury and you feel like you're, you can't bounce back or you thought you'd bounce back quicker, it could actually be because your mindset is not allowing you to talk about that. Mindset is so big when it comes to, especially if it's a injury that will take a while to heal. When I say a while like more than a couple of months, six months to a year.
Speaker 1:So an ACL is probably one of the most common ones that I see. Clients do get to some periods where if they're feeling stagnant mentally, it takes a lot of them, and if they're mentally feeling down, if they feel like they can't bounce back or they have these unrealistic expectations, that can actually be the thing that stops them from moving forward and progressing. And I think that's something that isn't often spoken about, because we do always look at the physical changes, the physical healing time, the physical change of getting stronger, but we often forget that there's a mental side as well and that has a huge impact on that.
Speaker 2:I think we should definitely talk more maybe episode 80, because it's a pretty big achievement but I think maybe we should talk a little bit more about how your mental can stop your progress. Because, yeah, you're right, like you can start thinking about all the negatives, you can start looking back and going, if I didn't do this, if I did that instead, like should have, could have, would have didn't. Oh well, I know it sounds a bit rough, but you got to deal with what you've got. In the moment you can't really look back and think I should have done that, like you you will. I know, I understand that you will think this, but if you keep holding on to the past and you know you let it happen for more than a day, maybe, maybe give yourself one or two, two to three days, but you know.
Speaker 1:I think you feel sorry for yourself, and then you gotta get get back up.
Speaker 2:You do, because otherwise you will start thinking the more worse things. Like your head is very powerful, your brain is very powerful, and if you let it do what it wants to do and think about all the things you could have, sort of would have done, holy shit, you'll be stuck for life and we spoke about this um on our.
Speaker 1:Was that our last episode on our inner strength? Unleashing our inner strength? Oh, we did too. Yeah, and that's, you know, that's huge as well. And that ties in nicely to today's episode, because when you are dealing with an injury that you know is taking a bit longer, you know building that inner strength and resilience and fortitude and pushing through even when it feels like you're not getting anywhere, yeah, and I mean sometimes it might not feel like you're getting anywhere, but I'm sure if you keep at it it will.
Speaker 2:It's the same with business, it's the same with anything that you do in life. It might not feel good at the start, it will get better and there will be proof in the pudding because you'll keep on going. If you're consistent, you will get to where you want to be.
Speaker 1:So I actually had a um. That reminded me of a conversation I had with a client a couple weeks ago. And um, she came in and she said, steph, you know, we we do monthly follow-ups. And she said, steph, I'm just not really seeing much progress this month, feeling a bit down, I feel like I'm a bit stagnant, I feel like I'm not really progressing with my exercises or my weight. And we had a conversation and, okay, cool, what can you do at the moment?
Speaker 1:And prior to that, she couldn't walk up and downstairs without feeling knee pain. And I said to her how are you going walking up and down stairs? And she's like oh, actually it's feeling really good, like I'm not getting any pain. So I'm like cool, and when you're going for walks, are you getting any pain? And she's like no, no, she's like no pain at all. I'm actually walking longer now. It's actually feeling really good. And I looked at her and I was like okay, so why don't you think you haven't progressed? And she was like oh, she's like. Yeah, you're right, she's like. I was just looking at my exercises and because I wasn't progressing on my weight, I thought hang on a sec, my knee's not getting any better. She's like. But she's like now that you've actually pointed that out she's like I'm actually.
Speaker 2:my function has improved and the stuff that I couldn't do before, I can do now without pain. And then her whole mindset just like flipped. That's what you need, that's what you need.
Speaker 1:you need that reminder. You need that reminder especially when you're so tunnel vision of it's not helping or I'm very stagnant, I've hit a wall, I'm not progressing, um, my rehab's plateaued, I don't feel like I'm moving forward. It's kind of like well, sometimes in that moment you need to stop and have a look at how far you've come. You need to focus on all the stuff that you can now do that you couldn't do before.
Speaker 2:Yeah, and it's so hard yeah, it's so hard to do that when you're in the midst of like trying to heal, slash, also not really thinking about what you have achieved, like that example is perfect, perfect example of how often we will actually be progressing, but we're going. It's not good enough that's right like this is still yeah, say that again.
Speaker 1:Well, we don't see it as a progression. Like we're so focused on the stuff that you know, for example, she're so focused on the stuff that you know. For example, she was so focused on gym stuff that she wasn't actually looking at her function overall. Yeah, so we've become very tunnel vision to like no, I have to get better at this, I have to get better at that, and if I'm not, then it's a sign that I'm not progressing.
Speaker 2:I really like. One of my goals, I think, for like next year is to start being more appreciative of the small shit, because there is so many times where I'm like upset about something and it's like hold on, but look at where you are, look how far you come, like this is okay, this is good it's like opening your lens to so much more than what you've been so focused on, and I'm sure you would see that with a lot of clients as well.
Speaker 1:I'm thinking more of the clients of weight loss. I'm sure you have clients that they might hit a plateau. They feel stagnant in the sense of they're not seeing the scale shift.
Speaker 2:Yeah, yeah all the time. But I think everyone wants more and then when they realise how much work they need to continue to keep doing, it's either a motivator or it's a perspective changer or it's like I actually don't really care about this goal as much as I thought I was. So I think the people who do the best really focus on the fact that they are chipping away and there are other positives than just the weight loss. I think weight loss is great to focus on, but when you have 20 kilos to lose, 30 kilos to lose, or even if you just have simply five kilos to lose, the goal is still the same. You still want to lose weight, but the journey and the time and where you're at is different. Everyone is different. So you still have to have some perspective and still need to chip away other things because ultimately, like weight loss is is annoying. It's really annoying to focus on your weight all the fucking time. It is raining tiring, tiring exhausting.
Speaker 2:If you can focus on how strong you're getting, how much easier you're moving, how much better you're sleeping, your quality of life, whatever, how much more fun you're having people you're meeting, yada, yada, yada, yada, yada. If you could focus on everything else besides the fact that you haven't lost the kilo that you set. But you, you did lose 500 grams. Fantastic, like.
Speaker 1:Change your perspective, change your life yeah, it's focused on the things that are going really well. Focus on the things that you can do.
Speaker 2:Stop focusing on the things that you can't do yeah, it frustrates a little me, a little bit of me on social media, where I do see those people post about their weight all the time and like how much they're losing and I think I tapped out of unfollowing so many bikini models because they would constantly do it. They're on their plate and all this stuff about their weight. Like I dropped another 500 grams today and I'm just like like this is, this is your goal and I'm proud of you for doing that, but this is not my like focus and I feel like that focus is so unhealthy yeah, it really.
Speaker 1:Um, it's all about what it's teaching and the message that comes across and that can be quite unhealthy and toxic for clients if they're so tunnel vision and focus on that, focusing on everything else it's annoying, but it's not annoying if it's your goal and you're working at it.
Speaker 2:I'm not saying that they are annoying, but it's not something that is my focus. Like I don't like looking, I don't really care about your 500 grams, 100 grams of social media. If it's my client, I do care, care. But if you're not my client and you're boasting about your weight every goddamn day, there is so much better things to life than your weight. Oh, my goodness. Oh, we've hit a nerve. Yeah, honestly, I'm a little triggered. This is great you know we're supposed to be talking about injury stuff now.
Speaker 1:We've got to wait a while well, we we come back to what we were speaking about in. I guess that goes back to expectations, right, and having, um, unrealistic expectations, and that can be why you're not bouncing back. If you feel like you should have been, you know, hit your certain goal or progressed, you know in two weeks, but realistically it's more of like a six to 12 week thing then that can be the reason why you know you're not bouncing back, because you get you feel let down because of your expectations and then you're no longer putting in the work because you feel like you're not making the progress and then you're kind of just in this cycle yeah, the hamster wheel.
Speaker 2:Yeah, wow, I think, um, if you are looking and you have had an injury, you're looking to bounce back a little bit quicker, definitely get in touch with steph, work on that injury, because you need to be in good hands as well.
Speaker 2:You can't.
Speaker 2:That's where we're coming back to the beginning, kind of full circle, like if you don't have the right guidance, you don't have the right person.
Speaker 2:Actually, this is a really good topic too, because there are a lot I don't know if this is comfortable with you, but I think there are a lot of therapists in the industry, allied health professionals that don't actually do their job properly and just kind of follow like like a cookie cutter plan and like this is what you need to do, go home, do this and don't really follow up with the exercises, like I think that's why you need someone who's a little bit more invested, and I think business owners in particularly are more invested in a client's health than someone who just works at a practice and comes into nine to five and has their scheduled appointments with people you know for half an hour, whereas you have like your business, you run your show, you care. I feel like I don't know. That's a bit of a stereotype or a generalization, but I do think that people who run their own business are typically a bit more caring.
Speaker 1:I think if you are feeling quite stuck with your injury, you don't feel like you're bouncing back.
Speaker 1:Well, take a step back and have a look at the way, the way you're actually going about it. You know Raquel mentioned number one make sure you've got the right support and the right guidance. So a practitioner who you know progresses you each time you see them, gives you a proper plan, tells you you know how you're going to get from A to B, gives you that support. You want to make sure you're fueling your body right. You want to make sure that you're taking into consideration external factors that may be influencing, such as your stress levels. You know your sleep quality quality. You want to make sure that mentally, you're feeling like you're in a, in a good mindset, a good frame of mind to keep yourself pushing. And if you do feel like you're not in that frame of mind, then that's when you might need to talk to someone or have that support to give you that little bit of you know, a boost or to flip your perspective support to give you that little bit of, you know, a boost, or to flip your perspective.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I totally agree. I think that wraps up our episode of why you aren't bouncing back after injury. I think so too beautiful. Thanks for listening everyone listening.
Speaker 1:I hope you got a few tips out of it and you got. You can always ask us questions as well, to follow through.
Speaker 2:Yeah, we have all the links on our buddy. Thanks, everyone. See you bye.