Another scenario we see all the time at The Foundation Chiropractic is when people go to a sports injury doctor in Baldwin County, and the Doctor tells them they need to take a break, rest and ice, wear a support and “try these painkillers” to “see how it goes” – then 4 weeks later they end up going back to the same Doctor again because the injury hasn’t got any better, only to be given MORE rest, and ANOTHER prescription of even stronger pills or worse, like we have heard before -- the recommend SURGERY!

The problem is that when it comes to sports injuries – hamstrings, ankle sprains, knee pain, shoulder pain, etc. – complete rest and ice is rarely the best advice.

So maybe you’re confused and frustrated because you been told different things, by different people. You trust you trainers and doctors, and are wishing the advice will work. Maybe you think you have an ankle problem – but it’s actually the foot where the problem came from?

Sports injuries can be very confusing because more often than not, where the pain is coming from, isn’t actually the area that needs to be treated and if you rest for too long – other parts of the body become just as, if not more problematic!

This confusion over “resting” often leads people to continue to procrastinate and put off making a decision about what to do to help fix their injury and return back to exercise. Or they return to play without doing anything about the injury, hoping they will magically be "normal again." Or worse, many end up accepting ‘their days of being active are over’ – as if it’s normal, as if it ‘has’ to be that way and they stop their sport entirely.