Coming back from injury is slower than you want and faster than it feels. Follow the plan, not the frustration.
STILLNESS
WHAT THIS MEANS
Healing runs on biology, which has its own timeline and does not consult you. The frustration is real and also a bad adviser, arguing for more than the tissue can take, which is how people end up back at week one. The plan exists to protect you from the version of yourself that feels fine on a good day.
Do exactly what you were given, including the boring parts and the days you feel ready for more. Ask whoever is treating you what the next milestone is, so you have something to aim at. Track the small gains, degrees of movement, reps, minutes, because they come faster than it feels.
A QUESTION TO SIT WITH
What recovery plan are you tempted to run ahead of?
MORE IN PATIENCE & TIMING
- Showing your grandpa how to send a photo for the fourth time is patience he spent on you years ago, coming back around.
- Grandpa’s advice can sound slow and old-fashioned. A lot of it is just patience that’s been tested for fifty years.
- Letting someone else do the job, slower than you would, is how they learn to do it at all.
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