REALITY: Disregarding pain and working against your body's signals is dangerous and can ruin your recovery outcome.

Although "pushing through the pain" might seem like a simple way to get thing back to normal, or rebuild lost mobility and muscles after an injury, the truth is you are making things much, much worse.

If you do notice an injury is healing and decide you feel well enough to exercise again, with just a little pain, you should reconsider. That "little" pain can lead to significantly longer recovery, and worse therapy outcomes longterm.

The best way to recover is to start physical therapy treatments using proven diathermic and cooling therapy from a Physical Therapy Recovery package, and create a recovery program for your injury.

Here are some simple recovery best-practices:

1. Create a recovery program using exercises that focus on static, pain-free stretching and regular physical therapy treatments using cold wraps and diathermy.

2. When flexibility improves, begin modest resistance exercise (weight lifting) to increase muscle strength.

3. When sufficient strength has been obtained, gradually add intensity within the movement of your sport.

Within each stage of the recovery program you must be very careful to select an intensity level that does not increase pain. With each change in intesity, make sure you continue use of your physical therapy treatments.