If you're not moving, you're actually getting more injury-prone - a podcast by Dr. Christopher Segler

If you're not moving, you're more injury-prone. If you got an over-training injury from running, and you're not moving, if you're not exercising, things are actually getting worse for you. You are actually getting more injury-prone, not less. 

This is the misconception: if you get injured, you have to sit still. You have to rest. You have to ”take care of yourself,” and you have to heal. And that is what physicians feed runners most of the time; this idea that they should just calm down, sit down, chill out, relax, recover, take it easy…whatever. But you know as an athlete, there are only two possibilities: Either you're getting stronger, or you are getting weaker. And if you're getting weaker, you're actually more injury-prone.

Today on the Doc on the Run podcast, we're talking about how if you're not moving, you're actually getting more injury-prone.

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