16/10/2024
What is muscle overloading? 🤔
This is something we often mention to patients, but why are physios so obsessed with 'loading'?
Well, loading is essentially referring to the workload different areas of our body are exposed to
Muscle overloading is when we are subjecting an area of our body to more workload/efforts than it has the capacity to tolerate. Doing this for long enough will make us more likely to develop tendonitis or muscle tears
The best thing we can do to minimise this issue is to recover well (all the good stuff like icing, gentle forms of exercise or 'active rest', good sleep, or stretching) AND increase our capacity so it's harder to become overloaded by building up our training over time or developing our muscular conditioning
Our body is great to us when we are great to it, so as an active person - remember to manage your loading and it will keep you on the park for longer!
Physio in Aldinga - Physiotherapy for back and neck pain, headaches, workcover, NDIS, to Sellicks, Port Willunga, Maslins
