Most active people know the difference between a good workout sore and something that doesn’t feel right.
But we’re also very good at convincing ourselves to ignore that second kind.
You stretch it.
Roll it.
Ice it.
Take a couple of days off.
Then you go right back to training.
Sometimes the discomfort disappears.
Other times, it keeps coming back until you’re forced to pay attention.
Overuse Injuries Usually Don’t Happen Overnight
Not every sports injury comes with a dramatic moment.
Sometimes it’s simply too much stress on the same tissues without enough recovery.
Running mileage increases.
You start playing pickleball five days a week.
Golf season picks up.
You add heavier weights at the gym.
Individually, none of those things are necessarily a problem. But when the demands placed on your body exceed its ability to recover, tissues can become irritated.
Pain Is Often the Last Part of the Story
By the time something hurts, your body may have been compensating for weeks or months.
That’s why we don’t simply ask, “Where does it hurt?”
We want to know what you’re doing, how often you’re doing it, what changed before the pain started, and how your body is moving.
Sometimes the answer isn’t doing less forever.
It’s helping your body handle what you want to do.
Our Sports Medicine Approach
At Lighthouse Acupuncture & Wellness Center, treatment is individualized to your injury and your sport.
Depending on what we find, treatment may include Sports Medicine Acupuncture, electroacupuncture, ATP Resonance BioTherapy®, cupping, soft tissue therapy, mobility work, and corrective exercises.
Our goal is to decrease pain, improve function, and address the factors that keep overloading the injured area.
Staying Active Is the Goal
We’re not interested in telling an active person to simply stop being active.
We want golfers golfing.
Runners running.
Tennis and pickleball players back on the court.
Cyclists riding.
People lifting weights, swimming, hiking, and doing the things that keep them healthy.
Sometimes that requires temporarily modifying what you’re doing while an injury heals. But the ultimate goal is getting you back to it.
If you’ve been dealing with a muscle strain or nagging injury that keeps returning, don’t wait until it forces you to stop completely.
Schedule a complimentary consultation with Dr. Lisa McCoog at Lighthouse Acupuncture & Wellness Center. We’ll figure out what’s contributing to the problem and create a treatment plan designed to get you moving again.