Sports Mastery

DON'T LET YOUR INJURY DEFINE YOU... And yet so many people from the general public and athletes allow this to happen. What causes an individual to continue to be hampered and slowed down by injuries that are long gone?  Dr. Carl Baird enlightens us during the episode. What stops most people from recovering after an initial injury are fear and self-doubt. Dr. Baird explains that avoiding activity due to fear of re-aggravation keeps us in the pain/injury cycle. Research has shown that movement and pain get mapped along similar pathways in the brain. This means that following an injury your brain will remember the movements that caused you pain. In short, avoiding a movement because we fear it will be painful actually increases the amount of pain we experience, regardless of actual tissue irritation. DOUBT - Individuals who believe an activity will be painful have been shown to have reduced performance abilities. When we convince ourselves we have a bad knee, back, shoulder we set ourselves up for failure. Fear