Step 3

Immobilize the injury

You do not “go run” on a broken leg. It’s broken. What’s the rush? Let it heal. It is common practice to immobilize bone the tissue through a healing. So once the tissue is healed the tissue returns to its natural state and is ready to be exercised. If this applies to hard tissue, why is soft tissue any different? Soft tissue also requires a healing. Injured soft tissue, just like a broken leg requires immobilized so the fibers can knit together. To achieve this, the tissue is immobilized so the fibers can mend back together.

 

Before muscle or tendons or ligaments can be stretched to achieve any range of motion, they must be fastened together back at their insertion point into the bone. Anything else is really just like walking on a broken leg - since the tissue is damaged - it has not healed with pressure on that tissue simply causes additional irritation and a longer healing time is necessary once the irritation is removed.

 

Stretching the injured tissue before it has healed creates further harm and expands healing time.

Any motion before the healing occurs only irate the wound.