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I made some mistakes with an injury recently and now I need to find out how to correct my follies and speed up recovery.
Last week we were drilling low kicks to the legs without pads. I was drilling with Shihan and it didn't feel like he was doing anything to my leg that I hadn't felt before and there was no visible bruising to my leg either. This was on a Thursday. I rested on Friday and took my kids to the museum on Saturday because I had promised them that I would do so earlier in the week (one thing I always try NOT to do is break a promise to my kids).
Here are the two mistakes that I made. I never should have went out on Saturday and should've just postponed the trip for next week instead. Also, I had applied heat to my leg on Saturday as well and wore an Icy Hot patch on my thigh while I was out with the kids. Conventional wisdom says to avoid heat the first 24 hours (only use ice) so I thought I followed proper protocol. I just came across another viewpoint that said that heat should be avoided the first 72 Hours after injury and by using heat within that time frame makes things worse and prolongs the injury.
I wonder if this is the case with my situation. It has been a week since the injury and my leg still hurts. There is no visible bruising and the swelling went down but it still hurts and I am still limited to how much weight I can put on it. The only visible difference between my injured thigh and my other one is that the veins in my injured thigh are slightly more visible/darker than the veins of my other leg. Where the veins are darker/more noticeable just so happen to be where the soreness is concentrated.
Anyone here ever come across this before? Thoughts or advice?
Btw, inb4 "Dude you shouldn't drill low kicks without pads."
Last week we were drilling low kicks to the legs without pads. I was drilling with Shihan and it didn't feel like he was doing anything to my leg that I hadn't felt before and there was no visible bruising to my leg either. This was on a Thursday. I rested on Friday and took my kids to the museum on Saturday because I had promised them that I would do so earlier in the week (one thing I always try NOT to do is break a promise to my kids).
Here are the two mistakes that I made. I never should have went out on Saturday and should've just postponed the trip for next week instead. Also, I had applied heat to my leg on Saturday as well and wore an Icy Hot patch on my thigh while I was out with the kids. Conventional wisdom says to avoid heat the first 24 hours (only use ice) so I thought I followed proper protocol. I just came across another viewpoint that said that heat should be avoided the first 72 Hours after injury and by using heat within that time frame makes things worse and prolongs the injury.
I wonder if this is the case with my situation. It has been a week since the injury and my leg still hurts. There is no visible bruising and the swelling went down but it still hurts and I am still limited to how much weight I can put on it. The only visible difference between my injured thigh and my other one is that the veins in my injured thigh are slightly more visible/darker than the veins of my other leg. Where the veins are darker/more noticeable just so happen to be where the soreness is concentrated.
Anyone here ever come across this before? Thoughts or advice?
Btw, inb4 "Dude you shouldn't drill low kicks without pads."