
06/11/2024
Returning to a fitness routine for fun after an injury and dealing with exercise for rehabilitation can be daunting and challenging.
Depending on the injury and/or recovery from surgery, it may feel like forever to get back to what you loved and using exercise for fun and health as opposed to basic function and freedom.
These are some questions you can ask yourself as you’re going through your recovery. And understand that getting back to what you love in fitness can be a longer journey than you imagine. Studies have shown it can take nine months of isolated exercises to help decrease recurrence of injuries… So think of those flareups or hurting yourself the same way over and over again, you need *at least* nine months of work to build up the nervous system and tissues to minimize future injury.
Most surgeries might tell you your return to basic daily function in weeks, but the return to fitness is a whole other chapter of the rehabilitation phase.
How is your rehabilitation going? Are you getting back to a fitness routine? How are you feeling?