Passive treatments may create a TEMPORARY window to train the injured area. If there is no active component that window will be wasted.
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Have you gone to a rehab professional and ALL they do is ultrasound, electrical stimulation, dry needling, or scraping techniques on your body? This is considered a “passive” treatment because it’s something done TO YOU.
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Regardless of if you think any of these treatments may or may not work, they should NEVER be the sole treatment method for addressing an injury.❌
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Rehabbing from an injury requires you to take a step back and NOT just focus on the site of pain.?
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For example, I’ve had many patients come to me from other rehab professionals who in trying to treat an Achilles tendon injury have only used a scraping tool. While there’s nothing wrong in this case with using this technique to the calf muscles, this treatment is not enough by itself to address the cause of the injury – the problem will only return unless an active approach is taken of strength based exercises and eventually returning to more plyometric loads once the tendon can handle the added stress.✅
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Don’t think of “passive” treatments as either good or bad, but instead question those who ONLY use these tools as the sole method of their treatment.