Injuries... the road to recovery
Hi,
Wasn't sure where to post this so I stuck it in this forum..
I am recovering from a recent injury to my knee and tendons in my left leg (injured durring a fight) and I wanted to know other members experiences and how the recovered as it seems its a little spoken subject.
Thankfully I am recovering now and it will be a matter of time before I recover fully but at least I know I what to do but it has seriously affected my training. I lost allot of confidence, especially not being able to do any kind of heavy leg training and this also affected my other routines where I lost motivation to train at all so its litterally been a battle to get into the pit and smash some iron... funny thing is I pushed my self so much that I have come out stronger and realized even if I am pshycologically drained I can still produce the results when it matters.
Still not 100% and a little phased by the fact that I can't put any kind of compression on my knee and tendons i.e do any kind of heavy squatting but I got a good physio looking after me and she has promised I will be able to lift stronger if I follow the recovery routine properly (its hard to keep our ego's at bay!).
Only other one I have had is a recuring shoulder injury where I tore my rotator cuff (ouch) and broke my collar bone a long time ago (during some grappling lessons). I had two options here, get surgery done and be out of the game for a long long time or try to train through it making sure I took precuations... I went for the latter being obviously ;-) Still comes and goes like someone has took a long 10" nail and drove it through my shoulder joint but I back off as soon as that happens and just do some light cable work or take a break from training.
So what about you guys, whats the worst you been through and how did it affect your trianing?