My Injuries & How I Approached Them

This post is a bit chaotic.....

I'm only writing this to help people who might have an injury themselves and feel lost or in despair. I have had a fair few issues in the past & present which has stopped me from doing my sports. I think you might find it helpful to see how I tackle my injuries, so you don't feel so alone Mentally Prep Yourself..

1. "You won't be able to do what you want for a while", it's a bitter pill to swallow. However, if you sulk around feeling lost you will make the process much worse. You need to accept your injured and have some pain. Learn to work around it and stop thinking about it for hours on end.

2. Accept you could be injured for a while and maybe never fully recovered. That knee injury you have might take you longer than you expect & you might just feel it never feels "the same" again. Accept this is what it is, and work around it.

My Fractured Rib

• My rib snapped the day i got my first promotion at Jujitsu. So what was supposed to be a really great occasion got slightly ruined by the fact my rip snapped. I was enjoying training more than ever before and attending lot's of sessions. Here is how I managed

• I said I would not go to training or even go the the gym to do ANYTHING. I stopped ALL physical activity overnight. I was doing BJJ 3x a week and weight 4x a week. I reluctantly stopped all. I knew that if i wanted this to get better fast, i need to stop

• When it felt better, i gave it ANOTHER month off. Bringing my rest time to 3 months. This gave me confidence that I was totally ready to return to sports and not have the same issue

Some or of jelly detachment in my eye

1. This happened in jujitsu again. Someone poked my eye and it's detached a little bit "of jelly" (excuse the terminology)

2. I still trained with it, but it took me a while to accept that my eye seems to have constant issues when going from a dark room to a light room,

3. The advise here is "acceptance"..

Dislocated Knee > soft tissue injury

1. Yeah, BJJ again

2. The damage was to the tissues around my knee being "moved" about.

3. A months rest

4. Return to BJJ but with a knee brace

5. Pick to train with people you trust, who will understand your issue and stay away from your knee

6. Cupping! As soon as i used my cups on my knee i started to recover. It was a miracle treatment

7. Sports massage. I went to someone else and got soft tissue work done, this helped speed up the recovery 10x

8. Start weight training again but very light and slow. Focusing on my single leg work

Shoulder bursitis, arthritis & injury to rotator cuff

1. This is a weight lifting and repetitive injury.

2. I looked into my weight training program. I identified i was lifting too heavy for what my body could really handle. I am light, long limbed and not built for heavy loads. The injuries started happening when I tried to focus on strength training

3. I no longer lift heavy, i focus more on light weight with "bloody good form", with slow mindful form.

4. I had Sports massage treatments fairly close to one another. This helped me regain mobility in the shoulder which helped massively.

5. However, I cant help the arthritis, so I have accepted it and adapted my BJJ and weight training to prevent much more damage.

Tennis Elbow

1. This was due to weight lifting.

2. Stopped all exercises which caused issues to the joint for a month.

3. Returned to exercise and started on very light weights and lowered the intensity dramatically on isolation exercises.

4. Problem solved. You do not need to be living with this condition for ages! Most of the time this is a lifestyle issue and can fixed fairly fast

5. I also had massage to aid recovery

Look, if you are injured in Saffron Walden right now, don't feel lost. Book in a deep tissue massage with me today. I have been in the same boat as you!