If you’ve injured yourself your massage therapist will give you at home care instructions. Here are three things your massage therapist will always tell you in order to help you get better.
Stretch
If you’ve injured yourself or you have chronic muscular pain and tension, stretching is a really great way to ease that tension and manage the pain. It will almost certainly speed up your recovery.
If you’re not sure you’re doing them correctly, ask for more advice or show your therapist what you’re doing.
Also, we can tell when you’re not doing them!
Rest
If you’ve injured yourself during a specific activity it is a good idea to rest that part of the body. For example, if you injured your shoulder at the gym, then make this week leg week. If you’re doing a repetitive task at work, ask your manager to change your duties or switch to light duties. It’s important to rest your injury, to enable it to heal, otherwise you may just be exacerbating the issue.
Follow up
Probably the most important thing your massage therapist will tell you is to follow up. Even if you feel better, please have your follow up within 5 to 10 days of your initial appointment. There is often still tension there, even if those trigger points have eased. If you return to the activity that caused the injury, the trigger points and pain is likely to return too.
If you have a follow up the week after, you are likely to stay pain free for longer. That is every massage therapists goal for you!
ALM Remedial offers remedial massage and myotherapy treatments servicing the Yarra Valley and Dandenong Ranges areas.
