Certain types of injuries can not only be excruciatingly painful, but they may also temporarily reduce your range of motion, flexibility, or overall mobility. This can have an impact on your day-to-day life, from partaking in work to running personal errands.
Worst of all, an injury doesn’t even have to affect your foot or leg to affect your mobility. Other types of injuries, too, can impact how you get around or use certain parts of your body. Injury-induced pain, inflammation, and swelling can spread to other areas of your body, creating mobility challenges or physical limitations as a result.
In this article, we discuss how some of our services here at Recovery Lab can help improve symptoms associated with immobilizing injuries and ultimately help them heal faster.
Reducing Swelling with NormaTec Compression Therapy
Swelling isn’t just unsightly; it can lead to stiffness and pain as it presses on nearby nerves, both of which can reduce your range of motion.NormaTec compression therapy offers a solution.
By offering a soothing, pulsating, and squeezing effect on the legs, compression therapy helps kickstart lymphatic drainage, encourages fluid movement, and prevents blood from pooling in the limbs.
With reduced swelling, NormaTec compression therapy can lead to lighter, more mobile limbs. It can also result in quicker injury recovery.
Decreasing Pain with Cryotherapy
Is pain from your injury the primary culprit of your mobility setback? Cryotherapy can help provide the necessary pain relief you need.
With the use of below-zero temperatures, cryotherapy calms nerve activity, which can lead to the impression of less pain. It can also reduce inflammation, induce muscle relaxation, and soothe irritated joints and tissues.
Even mild pain relief can have a big impact on mobility. Reduced inflammation, along with less tense muscles and less aggravated tissues and joints, can allow for smoother and more comfortable movements.
Improving Range of Motion with Mobility Stretching
Inflammation and fluid buildup can cause a limited range of motion and contracted muscle tissue. Existing misalignments of the muscles and joints can worsen the discomfort and stiffness you experience, especially concerning your mobility. Mobility stretching guided by an expert can provide relief.
During a mobility stretching session, your body will be gently manipulated, with a goal of realignment, proper posture, less tense muscles, and smoother-moving joints. As a result, your limbs will move more fluidly with less stiffness and pain.
Speeding Up Tissue Repair with Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy
Another integral part of the post-injury rehabilitation process is helping the body physically recover faster. Hyperbaric oxygen therapy can help withthis.
Hyperbaric oxygen therapy delivers highly concentrated levels of oxygen, which our tissues need for repair. Higher oxygen improves the injury recovery process and reduces the length of time it takes for repair. Improved mobility can, then, soon follow the healing of theinjury.
Are you experiencing an injury temporarily affecting your mobility, whether solely due to stiffness caused by inflammation or primarily from pain? Our wellness facility is currently booking for post-injury recovery. Contact us today to schedule a session.
