05/07/2024
TISSUE HEALING
🤕When an individual sustains an injury, one of the first questions asked is, “How long will it take until I am back to normal?” When an unexpected event such as an injury disrupts our quality of life, naturally we want to return to our full functional capacity as soon as possible. The difficult part of injuries is that there are certain components of them we are unable to control, such as our age, the type of tissue that was injured, blood supply to a specific tissue, and the extent of damage that was done.
🙌However, what we can control is enhancing our understanding of tissue healing, and how to optimize healing times by avoiding factors that could slow the normal healing process.
🔥Progressing from the inflammatory phase to the maturation phase of tissue healing begins with a short period of protection of the injured site, followed by early mobilization, and eventually optimal loading with an eventual return to full, functional capacity. As stated previously, the time spent in each of these phases as well as the specific actions you may be taking will be different depending on the type of injury you may have.
‼️It’s important to note that different tissues heal at different rates! And more importantly, the severity of the injury also impacts the length of recovery. You’ll notice that the range of healing times is quite large! So please - respect that you may recover faster or slower than your friend with the “same injury”. Even more so, a grade I hamstring strain you suffered a year ago may heal at a different rate than a grade I hamstring strain you just suffered yesterday! There are so many factors that go into recovery - but a good understand of tissue healing timelines is definitely the place to start!
➡️For more information and learning on this topic, check out our blog article: https://theprehabguys.com/tissue-healing-timelines/
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