...Dr. Mather adjusted his black spine treatment table and then ran his expert hands up and down my spine a few times.
“The biggest mistake that runners make when they injure their backs is they stop exercising.”
I grimaced as the doctor’s fingers palpated two very sore sports on the right lower side of my back, directly above my hip, “Don’t you just do more damage when you push through the pain, doc?”
He was down by my legs now, measuring them up and checking for any leg length discrepancies, “Well sure, if you just keep running you’ll do more damage, but there are a ton of other activities you can do to keep blood flow to the injured area and enhance the healing and recovery process.”
“Like what?”
“Just think about it: water running, elliptical trainer, recumbent bicycle, light stretching…about the worst thing you can do is just sit on the couch.”
At this point, he had me roll over onto my back, “I can tell your lower back and sacroiliac joint are locked up, but you’ve done some muscular damage too.”
This was the last thing I wanted to hear, especially with a half marathon just 5 weeks away, “What can I do?”
“I’d tell you, but then I’d have to kill you.”
Nice. A chiro with a sense of humor.
Fortunately, he did tell me. He told me everything.
And over the next year, I was able to harvest a goldmine of valuable back healing information from Dr. Mather, along with the other sports medicine physicians and physical therapists who I worked with on a daily basis in a sports medicine clinic, along with the nutritionists, massage therapists and chiropractors I interviewed on my free online health and fitness audio podcast..."
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