5 ways to help with injury prevention and ease pain
Tips to help you ease common aches and pains and prevent injuries
If you are wanting to ease pain and practice injury prevention you need to make sure you are moving and finding ways to hydrate your fascia. If fascia is unhealthy the cells surrounding it, can’t get the nutrients they need (nutrients i.e. oxygen, electrolytes, hormones, salts, and fatty acids). We need to make sure we are not only drinking plenty of water but also making sure that the water and nutrients are getting to all areas of the body. We can accomplish this through more movement.
Have you ever noticed that when you are sitting around drinking water you have to go to the bathroom more often than when you are drinking and moving? The more you are moving, the more the water can get into all of the cells.
5 ways to practice injury prevention in midlife:
- Move every 30 minutes to an hour.
- Practice stretching at your desk, when you are standing, or even during movement.
- Exercise or go for a walk.
- Practice posture and moving through different positions.
- Myofascial release such as foam rolling to help stimulate the lymphatic system.
The above ways will help you to hydrate the fascia which will help in preventing pain, injury, muscle imbalances, and possibly even knee and hip replacements. When your fascia gets stiff and sticky it no longer glides over the muscle and will create adhesions and tightness which can create pain and restrictions. By keeping yourself hydrated and moving you have less of a risk of doing this. Here is a video of some foam rolling techniques you can use to ease tension around the knee.
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