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What is an overuse injury?

April 26, 2017injury overuse

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What is an overuse injury?

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• Overuse injury is an improperly understood term. Typically, the prescription is rest because you “overuse” a tissue. However, it is not physiologically possible to overuse just one focal area without surrounding dysfunction. What really occurs is a series of restrictions create a compensation and the compensation is over-used. A better term would be a “mis-use” injury. Rest does not eliminate the restrictions, only proper rehabilitation and activity can eliminate the restrictions.