It's all about the Nerves
Hello everyone! Over the past year or so, I have been reconsidering many of my rehab philosophies due to 3 realizations I’ve had. All three realizations have to do with how we train the body in a rehab setting, specifically the role that nerves play in rehab. It started for me when I began paying attention to how long athletes would continue to get consistent treatment. For the sake of this discussion, we won’t include surgical cases (though most of the points I want to discuss still apply to them). To begin let’s consider an average injury, whether that is a lateral ankle sprain, hamstring strain, or indistinguishable shoulder pain that flips between presenting as impingement and rotator cuff irritation. Of course all injuries exist on a spectrum from “mild” to “severe”, however I am focusing on the bulk around the average. I don’t have concrete statistics available, but I think it would be fair to estimate around 75% of non-surgical injuries are resolved within a 3-6 week timel...
