An injury can bring your running routine to a stop.
Our team at Princeton Sports and Family Medicine, P.C. can help with a running rehabilitation program.
Your biomechanics and current physical condition must be considered when creating your running rehabilitation program. What you can expect from running rehabilitation varies, but we’ve prepared general guidelines for you to consider.
Because running is a full-body activity, it’s not always a one-way path to return after injury. If it were only up to your feet and legs, the process might be easier. However, running involves your entire musculoskeletal system, along with cardiac and respiratory performance.
With that in mind, it’s obvious that your return to running may not have a clear timeline. Instead, a rehabiliatation program presents the return to running with a series of progressive goals.
When we develop a running rehabilitation program, we consider factors like:
Your running rehabilitation plan breaks reconditioning into stages, recognizing the building blocks between inactivity and full performance.
During your running rehabilitation program, we don’t define progression in arbitrary timelines. That’s because unexpected setbacks could occur.
For example, an injury might trigger pain or linger longer than first expected. That’s why a thoughtful and granular approach to running rehabilitation utilizes performance milestones as progressive signposts. This could include measurables like:
Along with these measurables, we could also add guidelines like exercise frequency (a few days working toward daily) and pain modifiers (work through dull pain, stop at sharp pain). Soreness that affects sleep or causes joint swelling is another modifier that could require discontinued training until you’re free of both pain and swelling.
In order to reduce the risk of injury or if you have a running-related injury, we can provide a detailed and sports-specific analysis that includes an evaluation of biomechanical imbalances and your musculoskeletal system.
We can help you develop a training and performance plan based on your body and sport. Ask us about how sports performance evaluation improves orthopedic health before and after injuries.
Much depends on your situation, injury, and outcome goals. Count on the sports medicine specialists and in-house physical therapists at Princeton Sports and Family Medicine, P.C., to help you get your running schedule back on track.
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