Why "Just Rest It" Is the Worst Injury Advice Your GP or Physio Can Give You — Transcript

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1. 0:00Welcome back to
2. 0:03WOW, the whiteboard of wisdom. And in
3. 0:07today's video, I'm going to talk about
4. 0:09probably the most common mistake that
5. 0:12the clients that we see who have failed
6. 0:14previous approaches make. And one of the
7. 0:17most surprising things is it's often the
8. 0:20advice that has been given to them by
9. 0:21their GP, physio, osteo, Cairo, and that
10. 0:26is
11. 0:28rest. Now, I'm sure you're familiar with
12. 0:31the story. You get an injury, you go and
13. 0:34see your GP, you Google online, you
14. 0:36might use AI now, and one of the most
15. 0:39common things that people get told is
16. 0:41rest for 6 weeks and see how it is at
17. 0:43the end of that. Now, this couldn't be
18. 0:46poorer advice if it tried. And I've got
19. 0:49two different diagrams on the board to
20. 0:52explain it to you as simply as possible
21. 0:54in the next sort of 10 to 15 minutes.
22. 0:57And
23. 0:59what I want to do is I want to make you
24. 1:02or help you understand this through
25. 1:03different physical qualities and the
26. 1:06demands of your life of the activities
27. 1:08you like doing of the sports that you
28. 1:10may like playing. And those three
29. 1:13qualities and there are more qualities
30. 1:15than this but the three qualities that I
31. 1:17want you to think about are strength,
32. 1:19fitness and mobility. pretty much the
33. 1:22three sort of foundational um qualities,
34. 1:25but the ones that people understand the
35. 1:27most when they think about rehab and and
36. 1:29rehabilitating and fixing problems. And
37. 1:32over here, this is a common mistake that
38. 1:35people make.
39. 1:37The dotted line up here are the physical
40. 1:40requirements or what how much mobility
41. 1:43you need, how much strength you need,
42. 1:44how much fitness you need for your
43. 1:46specific sport or activity. and the
44. 1:52demands of that. And the reason that
45. 1:55most people get injured is that they
46. 1:56don't have enough strength, fitness,
47. 1:59mobility, and a concoction of those
48. 2:01different physical physical qualities
49. 2:03together to tolerate the demands of what
50. 2:05they're trying to play. It might be
51. 2:07football, it might be running, it might
52. 2:09be doing it recreationally, it might be
53. 2:10going to the gym, it might be playing
54. 2:12with the kids in the garden, it might be
55. 2:14gardening. Whatever it is, whatever lens
56. 2:17you look at it through, the same
57. 2:19principle applies that this injury
58. 2:20happens because of the gap between
59. 2:25where you currently are, which is here,
60. 2:28and this is your baseline, and the
61. 2:30physical requirements of the sport or
62. 2:32activity that you're trying to complete.
63. 2:34And your body can't tolerate those
64. 2:36demands because of where it is. And it
65. 2:39breaks down. And that's whether it
66. 2:41breaks down with physical trauma, a
67. 2:43muscle tear, a joint injury, um, etc.,
68. 2:47etc., or whether it's spasm, protective
69. 2:50tone, um, things locking up. They're all
70. 2:52common things that people say to us. And
71. 2:55what typically happens is when you rest,
72. 2:58this decline or deconditioning in those
73. 3:02physical qualities happens
74. 3:05and
75. 3:06you bottom out here. So you actually get
76. 3:10worse at the things that you were
77. 3:11missing from the um
78. 3:15onset of the pain. And what most
79. 3:19rehabers do is just try and get you back
80. 3:22to baseline because that's where you
81. 3:25started. Now this is there's so many
82. 3:28different shortcomings to this, but one
83. 3:30of the biggest shortcomings is that that
84. 3:32gap just still exists. So these are the
85. 3:35people that return to their sport,
86. 3:38return to gardening, return to playing
87. 3:40with the kids, and they do it for 2,
88. 3:43three, four, five, six weeks, whatever
89. 3:44it is. And the same thing happens. They
90. 3:49end up right back here because we could
91. 3:52actually just consider this a wave going
92. 3:54on. They end up right back here because
93. 3:56they've just not brid the gap between
94. 3:58where they currently are and where they
95. 4:01need to be.
96. 4:03I hope that makes sense. This is the
97. 4:05most common mistake that people make.
98. 4:07Now, this is the move approach and this
99. 4:10is how we get people back quickly. We
100. 4:12get them back effectively and we keep
101. 4:16them back. And this approach is terrible
102. 4:18for business, by the way, because as a
103. 4:20business owner, how good of it would it
104. 4:22be for me for you to just keep coming
105. 4:24back in and believing that I'm helping
106. 4:26you because I'm getting you back to pain
107. 4:28free and back to baseline,
108. 4:30but you not seeing or not knowing that
109. 4:34the gap that needs closing is the true
110. 4:36answer and the true fix to your problem.
111. 4:38And quite frankly, what actually happens
112. 4:40here is that people get back to here and
113. 4:43then they bottom out a bit lower and
114. 4:45they just keep deconditioning over time
115. 4:48and over time because they just never
116. 4:50get back to where they need to be to
117. 4:52tolerate the demands. So what the move
118. 4:54approach does is the injury happens and
119. 4:58you come into us and we go through a
120. 5:00really detailed assessment. That
121. 5:03detailed assessment allows us to know
122. 5:05exactly what that gap is. We know where
123. 5:08you are. We understand your goal or your
124. 5:12dream
125. 5:14outcome
126. 5:20and we can develop a needs analysis of
127. 5:23how much strength, how much fitness, how
128. 5:25much mobility you need. Like I said,
129. 5:26there's more physical qualities than
130. 5:28that. So then we can put a really
131. 5:30specific plan in place that means that
132. 5:34you can at least maintain as much as
133. 5:37possible. And the majority of our
134. 5:39clients
135. 5:42might decondition a little bit, but very
136. 5:44quickly they start to super compensate
137. 5:48or they start to make this gap smaller
138. 5:52and smaller and smaller over time.
139. 5:56The reason I've left a little bit more
140. 5:58of a time delay there in terms of the
141. 6:00way that the strength is improving is
142. 6:03because quite frankly, if you're in
143. 6:05pain, you're not going to be able to
144. 6:06tolerate pushing your strength as uh
145. 6:08early as you are improving your mobility
146. 6:12and improving your fitness. A lot of
147. 6:14people think, oh, I I just need to rest
148. 6:16and I can't develop my fitness or my
149. 6:18cardiovascular fitness. Well, actually,
150. 6:20if it's a lower body injury, we can do
151. 6:22seated ski. So you're using your arm and
152. 6:25you're developing your cardiovascular
153. 6:27system. If it's an upper body uh injury,
154. 6:29we can do lower body uh based
155. 6:31cardiovascular exercises like bike um to
156. 6:35develop that. And what we actually do,
157. 6:37we don't just objectively test your
158. 6:39injury. We objectively test you. We look
159. 6:41at absolutely everything. And that's
160. 6:42what's so unique about our approach and
161. 6:44our pro recovery and performance plan.
162. 6:46And if this is something you're
163. 6:47interested in knowing a little bit more
164. 6:49about the first link in the bio down
165. 6:50below, it's an application form. It
166. 6:53takes five minutes for you to fill out.
167. 6:55It's essentially an opportunity for you
168. 6:56to tell me about your injury, what your
169. 6:58goals are. I read every single one of
170. 7:00them and I will reach out to basically
171. 7:03explain to you what I recommend as the
172. 7:05best next steps.
173. 7:07But
174. 7:09as your pain improves, your mobility and
175. 7:11your fitness are improving, and you're
176. 7:13able to tolerate pushing your body more,
177. 7:16and then your strength starts to
178. 7:18improve. And what we're actually aiming
179. 7:20to do is not just get you to the demands
180. 7:24of your sport, but we want to exceed
181. 7:26those so that we can guarantee with as
182. 7:29much confidence that when you return
183. 7:31back to your sport, you can tolerate
184. 7:33that. I worked in professional uh rugby,
185. 7:36international sport for nearly 10 years.
186. 7:40And this was the single biggest thing
187. 7:41that allowed me to achieve success. And
188. 7:43one of the most unique sessions that I
189. 7:45did within any rehab approach was a
190. 7:47worst case scenario approach uh session,
191. 7:49sorry, a worst case scenario session.
192. 7:51And all I'm trying to do in that session
193. 7:54is understand the sport and what that
194. 7:56certain player or individual's demands
195. 7:59are. And obviously, we've got loads of
196. 8:01data that we can track and and bits and
197. 8:03pieces there. and I want to take them to
198. 8:06110% of a half of rugby or a half of
199. 8:10football or a half of net ball or run at
200. 8:13a higher intensity in their intervals. I
201. 8:16just want to exceed that and know that
202. 8:18they can hit 110% and they can therefore
203. 8:23tolerate the demands of their sport and
204. 8:25activity, get back there confidently,
205. 8:28get there back there and enjoy them and
206. 8:30also bridge the gap because like some
207. 8:33people might go back here and they'll
208. 8:36won't feel up to speed. They won't feel
209. 8:39confident. they'll need 4 to 8 weeks
210. 8:43getting back up to speed and then still
211. 8:45only be here because they've just not
212. 8:48finished the rehab process. All rehab is
213. 8:51is strength and conditioning
214. 8:54with a constraint of an injury to
215. 8:56consider around it. And that's again why
216. 8:58with that pro recovery and performance
217. 8:59plan that I mentioned earlier, we aren't
218. 9:02just your physio, we don't just do your
219. 9:04rehab. We do all your strength and
220. 9:05conditioning work. We do all your
221. 9:06training. We do all your mobility. We
222. 9:08help with lifestyle, nutrition, sleep.
223. 9:10It is a fully comprehensive package so
224. 9:13that we as much confidence can guarantee
225. 9:16that we don't just get you back to
226. 9:18baseline and you get stuck in this
227. 9:20injury loop. We don't just get you back
228. 9:22to your sport. we exceed those demands
229. 9:24and we guarantee with as much confidence
230. 9:26and ultimately I say this to my clients
231. 9:27all the time I want to be able to look
232. 9:29you in the eyes shake your hand and say
233. 9:31that the job is finished and I want to
234. 9:33be able to back that up with objective
235. 9:35data that we've collected right from day
236. 9:37dot or as early as possible in the um
237. 9:40from the injury onset and we have
238. 9:42retested at regular intervals and we
239. 9:45have just seen you be able to hit all of
240. 9:48the KPIs so the key performance
241. 9:50indicators to know that you've earned
242. 9:52the right to safely and effectively. Get
243. 9:53back to your sport, your activities,
244. 9:55whatever they are, and you're good to
245. 9:58go. So, I hope that makes sense. The big
246. 10:02takeaways,
247. 10:03don't rest. There's always something
248. 10:05that you can do. Like I said, mobility
249. 10:07might be the first thing that we focus
250. 10:08on, but it needs to be tested. It needs
251. 10:10to be specific, not just the three best
252. 10:12exercises that you've found on social
253. 10:14media or on YouTube for your knee pain,
254. 10:16for your ACL, for your back pain,
255. 10:18whatever it is. Then we can think about
256. 10:21right how can we improve different
257. 10:22physical qualities. It might be fitness,
258. 10:24it might be strength. There's lots of
259. 10:26different modalities as well that we can
260. 10:28probably introduce these things earlier.
261. 10:30But it's very individualized in that
262. 10:32regard in terms of what you have access
263. 10:34to, how much time you have, etc., etc.
264. 10:37But the biggest shift you can make if
265. 10:39you're watching this, you're currently
266. 10:41injured. Get out of this rest mindset.
267. 10:44Get out of just trying to get back to
268. 10:46baseline and get out of the injury
269. 10:49cycle. Start having a performance
270. 10:51focused rehab approach from day dot.
271. 10:54Find someone that is going to be able to
272. 10:55tell you exactly where you are with
273. 10:58regards to your injury, but then also
274. 11:00your overall performance that can then
275. 11:03put a plan together that takes you back
276. 11:05and exceeds the demands of the sport or
277. 11:07activity, whatever lens it is. Whether
278. 11:10you just want to play with the kids,
279. 11:11garden on a regular basis, we've got
280. 11:13we've now helped over four and a half
281. 11:15thousand people at Move. Whether that's
282. 11:16a combination of online uh in person at
283. 11:19our Harriet HQ, hybrid clients that come
284. 11:22and see us once a month and then we do
285. 11:23all of their programming away from here,
286. 11:25a very wide range of people. And this is
287. 11:28our approach is we want to understand
288. 11:30the demands of your dream outcome, where
289. 11:32you are, and then basically how to fill
290. 11:35the gap in between. So, like I said,
291. 11:37there's a link in the bio if you want
292. 11:39it. The second link in the bio is 30
293. 11:41days uh 30 ways in 30 days to fix your
294. 11:43injury. I'll just send you a free gift
295. 11:46direct to your inbox every single day um
296. 11:48with a piece of injury advice. Um so,
297. 11:51yeah, if you're injured, first link. If
298. 11:53you're injured and want more
299. 11:56wisdom from the whiteboard, hit the
300. 11:59second link and I look forward to
301. 12:00chatting.