Whether running for leisure or preparing for a long run, recovery is important for your physical well-being. While running is a great way to improve cardiovascular health, you must address the overuse symptoms and effects on the bones and musculature throughout the body. While you run your ankles-knees-hips and lumbar spine take on a high volume of pounding that can increase your susceptibility to injury or overuse symptoms. Recovering from a long run can come in many forms: Sleep, hydration, flexibility recovery, and lactic acid mobility.
Normatec Compression Therapy
At John Goetze Physical Therapy we offer a run recovery session for all ages and demographics of runners, from elite long-distance runners to the speed walkers. In this session, we focus on stretching all the affected muscles utilizing PNF (Proprioceptive Neural Facilitation) stretching, this is an advanced professional form of stretching to maximize muscle excursion without taking a ton of time. We also utilize soft tissue mobilizations to ensure the muscles can move properly and perform efficiently and keep you running longer. We also offer Normatec to finish the recovery session. Normatec is a compression garment that is put on both lower extremities, that creates pneumatic compression starting at the feet and working to the top of the leg. Pneumatic compression is proven to be vital for moving and circulating lactic acid, decreasing the discomfort with prolonged muscle use, and mobilizing blood while increasing oxygen uptake in the muscle for improved fat consumption and muscle/tendon healing.
If you wish to maximize your recovery after an exhausting run, come to Innovative Physical Therapy and allow us to maximize your running potential! Call us at (904) 280-2001 or visit our website at Manualpt.com.
