Exercising While Injured

This was a topic that I came up with and wanted to talk about a while ago. I'm now reminded of it because of a few people that I work with have had some minor issues lately, a few other people in the CPC community have had issues, oh yeah and Geoff may very well have broken something in his hand this week. So needless to say I thought this would be a good time to quickly address this topic.

Seems pretty straight forward and almost to simple or obvious, but you'd be surprised. The following points are what you have to think about and take into consideration when returning to or continuing exercise.

Moral of the story and what I want everyone to take away from this is that you need to be very aware of what you have going on and you need to be careful/smart about what you are doing. If you have multiple "health care providers" (Physical Therapist, Massage Therapist, Personal Trainer, etc) you need to know what they are doing, what they are prescribing, and most importantly share the information about the injury with all of them. You can definitely train and still be active while injured, but it must be handled and planned appropriately or you'll suffer the consequences.

Stay Healthy!

Mike