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There was a story a while back of a "coach" forcing a girl to do the splits.
The girl was screaming and crying in pain and telling them to stop.  10%  [ 2 ]
A lot of people were like "No pain no gain!" and "Pain is part of being an athlete!"  5%  [ 1 ]
You can't do that. You work your way to doing splits. You don't FORCE it.  43%  [ 9 ]
That just tears your muscles and you can't use your legs.  43%  [ 9 ]
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 Post subject: Work Through The Pain
Posted: Mar 14th, '19, 01:52    
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I hear this a lot when it comes to things like sports and dancing and gymnastics and stuff, but is it actually good to do that?

I'm not athletic and I'm not a doctor, but I would think that if you get hurt, you need to stop and rest.
I had a friend in medical school that told me that pain is your body telling you to stop.

Common sense would tell me that if you hurt yourself, continuing to do it over and over will not help the injury. It won't make it better and it won't make it go away. It just gets worse.

As I said, I'm not into any athletics, but I'm an artist. I use my hand a lot. I have a permanent knot on my finger from drawing nonstop over the years. It will never go away. I started to feel pain in my hand the past few years, but I said it was nothing and kept drawing. Because I love drawing. Nowadays my fingers will hurt so much that I need bandaids and athletic tape on them just to be able to hold my pen. Sometimes my whole hand hurts so bad that I can't even pick anything up without horrific pain. My hand also started going completely numb when I draw. The only reason I can think of is that I didn't stop and rest when I hurt. I just kept making it worse and worse.

It's good that you have the dedication to work through the pain.
It shows you really love what you do.
But I don't think it's good to keep putting pressure and wear and tear on an injury.

What do you think?

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 Post subject: Re: Work Through The Pain
Posted: Mar 14th, '19, 02:14    
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I think in general, that's right, but that there *are* instances when you really do need to work through pain; but that you should always double-or-triple check first!

I'm thinking about cases such as injuries where, if you don't move your joints, no matter how much it hurts, while they are healing, then you will flat out lose your range of motion because they will heal in such a way that locks them in place.

Specialized cases like that.

In general, as a rule of thumb? I'm firmly in the camp that says pain is your nerves telling you something is wrong, and you should stop and assess and not make matters worse!

There are instances where you do have to override your body's instincts, but they're rare (like if you get the breath knocked out of you, the instinct is to try and breathe, and it's terrifying when you can't, but if you can deliberately HOLD your lack-of-breath, or force yourself to try and breathe out a little, THEN try breathing in, you get your breath back faster. Or if you have a charlie horse and a muscle knots up on you, if you force that muscle to clench even tighter -which HURTS- then when you relax it, it almost always actually gets rid of the cramp, but if you sit there trying to relax it, it takes a lot longer for the cramp to ease. That kind of stuff).

So, yeah.... that's my take.

(I hope that "coach" was fired, and charged.)

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 Post subject: Re: Work Through The Pain
Posted: Mar 14th, '19, 02:52    
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Yeah, I know that. I know there's times where you need to push through the pain or work on it.
Like when it comes to physical therapy and getting your body back to normal.
And one being giving birth. You can't just quit in the middle of that \8u/

Oh, yeah he was fired. I also think it came out that he wasn't a real coach.
You have to push yourself to learn to do splits, but you can't just do it instantly.
You gotta work your way towards it. Stretching a lot and you'll start getting closer and closer to your goal.
You use extreme force - that's going to cause damage.

I lived with my grandpa a lot and he would be incredibly impatient with some things.
I'm that way too, but I know you can't just do something or expect something instantly.
That's not how some things work.

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 Post subject: Re: Work Through The Pain
Posted: Mar 17th, '19, 17:36    
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Ouch. That sounds painful. I feel bad for the girl it happened to.

It also reminds me of horrible experiences I had in swimming lessons as a kid. I was never a great swimmer and swimming lessons scared me. One year when I was about 10 I had a swimming "instructor" who decided because I didn't want to put my head underwater, he would just shove it underwater himself.

I remember first he forced me into the deep end where I was scared, then he shoved my head right under the water and held it there for a good 10 seconds. I remember thinking I was going to die. When he let me back up I remember crying and just making my way out of the pool and refusing to ever go back again. I don't know what happened to that guy but I hope he got fired and I hope he was never allowed to work with kids again.

Ugh, just thinking about that now got me feeling all weird. Who does that to a kid? What an asshole.

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 Post subject: Re: Work Through The Pain
Posted: Mar 19th, '19, 01:48    
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I felt bad for her too. She looked like she was in so much pain and her screaming for them to stop and they didn't pissed me off xD

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That's horrible >>
I had someone do that to me too when I was a kid.
Screwed me up with water for life >___>


There's some things that need to be forced and there's some things you need to take your time with.
Rome was not built in a day >8u

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 Post subject: Re: Work Through The Pain
Posted: Mar 23rd, '19, 06:57    
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Moi wrote:

I felt bad for her too. She looked like she was in so much pain and her screaming for them to stop and they didn't pissed me off xD

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That's horrible >>
I had someone do that to me too when I was a kid.
Screwed me up with water for life >___>


There's some things that need to be forced and there's some things you need to take your time with.
Rome was not built in a day >8u
Yeah, I have issues with water now too and I never did end up learning how to swim very well.

People need to be patient with kids.

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