The last couple of blogs delved into injury rates in CrossFit compared to other sports, as well as questions CrossFitters can ask themselves to minimize their risk of sustaining an injury. Now for the fun part: what does injury rehab look like for CrossFit, specifically at Made 2 Move? How can we manage and come back from existing injuries? How can we mitigate injury risk by being smart with our training daily, as well as on a macro scale?
What Does CrossFit Rehab Entail at Made 2 Move?
Regardless of the mechanism or location of the injury, your Made 2 Move PT will do a thorough evaluation to assess how you move, how things feel, and what types of motions are provocative to the area. And then you’ll work together with your PT to formulate a game plan for how to tackle it.
CrossFit is great because it brings people together to do one of the things Made 2 Move loves most: FITNESS. But CrossFit programming is often a general plan either through an app or local gym that lacks individual variations in loads, volumes, and skills based on individual capacities.
If people want to kip, do all the gymnastics skills, and all the overhead work, but do not have the mobility or strength to do so yet, it could become problematic. OR they may have the mobility and strength, but the overall workload is too high. Your Made 2 Move PT is here to help you navigate all of these factors and individualize your CrossFit so that you can do it in a way that promotes progress NOT injury.
And here’s the cool part: because CrossFit has you moving in so many different styles and ways, there is usually always one aspect of CrossFit you can still tap into during your rehab process. For example, if you’re struggling with a shoulder injury, maybe the kipping and gymnastics part of CrossFit will be paused, but you can still do the lifting movements, just dialed back accordingly, and get wicked upper body strength while doing so.
If it was reversed and let’s say you have back pain with the lifting pieces, maybe hanging from the bar is tolerable. We can start here, then work on strict pulling strength and eventually gymnastics skills to keep the CrossFit pieces, all the while introducing lighter hinging movements so that when it’s time to pull a heavy deadlift again, you’re prepared!
How Are Made 2 Move Clinicians Different?
CrossFit Knowledge Base:
When you come to Made 2 Move, you are going to be working with a PT who has done all of the movements you are aiming to get back to, so we’re not going to waste time trying to explain or show videos of what a kipping pull up or double under is. No more explaining what an AMRAP, EMOM, Metcon, or WOD is. This allows us to also help you with the skill of the movement, not just getting back to doing it pain-free. We also know the mental FOMO that can ensue when an injury sets you back, so we will aim to incorporate aspects of it into rehab sessions and give you tools to still hit your normal classes with minor adjustments to daily programming.
Equipment:
Some of our CrossFitters have come from PT clinics that didn’t even have a pull-up bar or barbell. How can you expect to get back to doing these movements if you don’t have the proper equipment to do them with at PT?
Resemblance to the Sport of CrossFit
A large piece missing from PT in general and even more so with CrossFit related injuries is that rehab looks far too different from the sport you’re trying to get back to.This can often be due a lack of both of the above variables (knowledge and equipment). At Made 2 Move, we’re here here to flip that script.
At Made 2 Move, we understand the tenets and requirements of the sport of CrossFit. We know the aspects of the sport: strength, skill, aerobic capacity, and competition so will incorporate these into sessions (maybe even through a fun AMRAP). We believe that there is always something we can do, and that rehab doesn’t have to be boring, low level, or only band work that you can hit 50 easy reps for.
Interested in working with a PT at Made 2 Move? Schedule your free consultation today!
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