“Importance of Muscular Therapeutic”

Agility. Speed. Skills. Endurance. Flexibility. These are all the abilities an athlete needs in their system to have a high performance in any sort of sport or activity. There are many pros and cons of being an athlete. I can say this because I am an athlete and I have had many sportive experiences. Pros are having a healthier body, finding what kind of sports you are good at, experimenting with new abilities you never knew you had all along, and in general having fun. Cons are injuries, torn muscles, body aches, cramps, and very tight muscles. Many athletes tend to have these kinds of problems. It is the most common thing when it comes to sports. Most injuries tend to be muscular due to lack of recovery and self-care.

There are many types of injuries like hamstring, knee injuries, swollen muscles, sprains, fractures, and I can go forever with several types of injuries. What I am trying to say is that many athletes do not take care of themselves so that they can avoid these problems and have a healthier and stronger performance. This is where muscular therapeutic comes in hand. What is muscular therapeutic you may ask? Well muscle is key to recovery for all athletes and for all types of sports. Garry Luke is the creator of Muscle Therapy, a type of medical intervention. In order to relieve your discomfort and restore your body to its peak performance, it uses functional movement-based treatments, therapeutic massage, trigger point therapy, progressive muscle relaxation, dry needling, and corrective exercise. There are many types of muscle therapy. For instance, Swedish massage, deep tissues, hot stone massage, reflexology, and sports massage therapy. A form of bodywork called sports massage caters to the unique demands of athletes. Sports massage is a unique type of massage that is frequently applied prior to, during, and following sporting activities as well as during the off-season, pre-season, and post-season. The goal of a sports massage is to enhance flexibility, drain away tiredness, minimize swelling, ease muscular tension, and prepare the athlete for their best performance. Lots of players do not believe in sport recovery or sport physical therapy for many reasons. Me being a student athlete in a soccer team, I used to get into a lot of injuries because I did not believe in the process of muscle recovery and these kinds of massages. I was taught a lesson.

The reasons why athletes do not believe or do not like to get their muscles treated after a workout or training session or after an intense game they just have is because they are afraid that these therapeutic sessions would hurt or be a bother. Physical therapy might reasonably make you fear going if you think it involves causing pain on yourself for your own advantage. Few individuals voluntarily consent to additional suffering. In order to inspire their players to work harder, sports instructors began using the adage “no pain, no gain,” which dates back to 1670 and was first published in John Ray’s collection of proverbs according to a source found in “Rock Valley Physical Therapy”. However, it might reasonably instill apprehension about coming to physical therapy if you think it involves putting pain on yourself for your own good. Most individuals are reluctant to accept further suffering. The bottom line is that if you put off getting physical therapy because you are worried about the pain it could bring on, you will probably just make the discomfort that led to your recommendation for physical therapy worse. You may collaborate with your physical therapist to develop a treatment plan that gives you excellent outcomes without causing you undue discomfort by speaking with each other. For instance, soccer players or rugby players tend to have many hamstring injuries due to the among of running they go through in training and in games. To outline the most typical hamstring injury circumstances and consequences in high-level rugby union. Backward-looking research. Data on hamstring injuries from a top rugby union team were gathered over five seasons and retrospectively analyzed. 74 rugby players who are professionals. Both fresh and recurring injuries were distinguished. In five seasons, there were thirty hamstring injuries. The bulk of injuries (93% of them) were fresh, of moderate intensity (60%) and happened while jogging (77%). The distal myofascial junction (DMFJ) was the most often damaged location (58% of BFlh injuries), while the biceps femoris long head (BFlh) was the muscle that was most frequently affected (73%) for more clinically serious injuries. Running was the activity that caused hamstring injuries to occur most frequently, and other sports also share this muscle. I was able to obtain this information in a source called “Physical Therapy in Sports.” This article is about an examination of hamstring injuries among professional rugby players in the past. This is the outcome of not treating your tight muscles and there may be more reasons why athletes and players avoid going to these therapies. Not treating it could lead to long term effects like torn ligaments where you are unable to continue the sport you desire. From the source from the Harvard Health Publish, in order to maintain a range of motion in the joints, we need our muscles to be flexible, strong, and healthy, which stretching helps us do. The muscles shrink and tighten without it. The muscles become weak and are unable to fully expand when you then ask for activity in them. As a result, you run the danger of suffering from joint discomfort, muscle sprains, and injury. Another reason is budgeting. Therapies can be expensive and cost a lot of money if you do not have insurance or if your insurance does not cover enough for these treatments. But there is always a solution for any kind of problem.

At home treatments and remedies. Even though it is different from going to a professional doctor or clinic to get treated the right way, you could also learn at home and experience what those doctors must do to get these players and athletes ready on the field or court. It probably wouldn’t feel the same but at least it is better than no recovery treatment. Some ways you can heal your sore, tight, cramped muscles are by stretching. Another form of at home recovery is exceptionally low temperature baths or a bathtub filled with freezing water and ice. Having a personal experience with this method helps a lot. The way I would recommend this method is by obviously filling the bathtub with a lot of chilly water. If you have packs of ice at home that you get at your local supermarket, then you can dump all of it in the tub with cold water and witness how bright blue the water turns. I would sit in the tub for roughly 10 to 15 minutes. This seems like it is the most painful and awkward thing to do but as soon as a touch the water I would have my phone and listen to music or watch anything that would distract me from this painful feeling. It is a mental challenge you will have to overcome if you want a stronger and faster recovery for a better performance. Take my word for it.

There are so many benefits when it comes to the recovery and rejuvenating of an athlete’s body. Muscle recovery can lower stress. Chronic stress can have negative emotional and physical impacts. Massage treatment can treat diseases including tension headaches and stress-related illnesses. Improving physical fitness. Both professional and amateur athletes can profit from massage treatment since it can lower muscular tension, enhance exercise performance, and minimize injury risk. Reducing pain, tension, and muscle soreness. Improving your energy is also part of recovery. After the right treatment, your body will feel 10 times better than it was before. Relieving circulation and increasing alertness. Will muscular therapy make the average or most advanced player stronger? Will it make them faster? Possibly increasing their performance? The solid answer to this is yes. Age-related decline in athletic performance is mostly brought on by years of microtrauma from maximal effort combined with the accumulation of old, untreated injuries. The impact of these traumas is minimized when these therapeutic procedures are regularly employed. Injuries’ negative consequences are overcome. Much longer, the facia and muscular tissues stay flexible and elastic. The musculoskeletal system maintains complete mobility. When you combine these advantages with the additional 20% performance boost that sports massage provides, the natural “slowdown” that comes with aging is postponed to a far later period of time. This was another source I found in an article called “LA Sports Massage.” To better understand it more, the older the athlete gets and does not receive any muscular therapy, the more problems they will have later in their life. If they were to get treated regularly throughout their career, their bodies would feel much healthier and stronger. Taking care of oneself is what makes them feel and look much younger.

Now along with this body recovery, you need to have a healthy balanced nutritional diet. Recovery is also about your daily intake in your body. For instance, you start off your day with a delicious healthy breakfast. Get in some proteins like eggs, avocados, fruits, and nuts like cashews and almonds. Muscle protein deterioration is triggered by exercise. Even highly trained athletes endure muscle protein breakdown; however, the pace at which this occurs varies depending on the activity and your degree of training. Eating a bowl of oatmeal is an excellent choice as well. During exercise, your body’s glycogen reserves are utilized as fuel, and eating carbohydrates afterward helps refill them. Some fruits that are helpful for recovery are bananas to avoid cramps, watermelon for your amino acid, and citrus fruits like oranges for improving your vitamin C. There is little research to suggest if you should restrict your fat consumption after working exercise. Also, an important thing to consume in your daily body intake is water. Water, water, water. Staying hydrated helps the blood flow right and keep your energy up. It is also vital to consider the time of your meals. Eating at 12:00 in the evening is not the best choice if you want to stay healthy and recover faster. The essential idea is that consuming the proper nutrients and at the right time after exercise can aid in the rebuilding of muscle proteins and glycogen reserves. It also aids in the stimulation of new muscle development.

To summarize what I was talking about throughout this entire constructed research essay, muscular therapeutic, or physical therapy, is what if not all but most athletes need to gain a stronger, faster, and better performance on the field or court. Does not matter what sport you are in, does not matter how old you are, and does not matter if you think it is just a big waste of time. At the end of the day, you as an athlete are taking great care of your body and making sure that it will be healthy and ready by the next training session or more importantly any future games. Me being a current college student athlete, I make sure that after every practice session or game that I recover my entire body. That puts my body to rest and stay hydrated. Eating the right food and nutrition at the right time. I hope this really educated many other sports players and coaches on how to keep their bodies strong and healthy. If any current or former athletes are reading this, what is your side of muscular recovery? I am invested in your thoughts on it.

Work Cites:

At campus library source:

Sports Without Pain by Ben E. Benjamin