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If your suffering from several of these warning signs go see your physician so that any potentially serious problem can be ruled out. Otherwise, just stop & rest, take a few days off. Drink plenty of fluids, check & alter your diet if necessary. Maybe plan an alternate work-out routine so that your not constantly working just the same muscle groups. If you don’t receive consistant massage work, this would be a good time to get one or two sessions to help flush metabolic wastes out of your system and help loosen up.
To prevent further overtraining injuries, check out some of the more common overuse factors associated. You may need to modify all or part of what you’re doing. If you suffer an injury during a workout, just remember RICE, this could save you alot of pain, discomfort, and a long recuperative layoff.
“Sports massage before the muscle spasms reach the critical stage is the only sensible way to keep your entire muscular structure in top form. This is a new way of thinking for most people, who see massage mainly in terms of correcting known problems.”
Jack Meager
Sports Therapist & author of Beating Muscle Injuries for Runners
Norm St.Onge is a licensed and nationally certified massage therapist and is the owner of ProTouch Professional Massage & Muscle Therapy in Townsend, MA. He is a member of the American Massage Therapy Association, the Nashoba Valley Chamber of Commerce and the Townsend Business Association. He can be reached at 508.597.5219. Please email questions to Norm St. Onge at protouch@tiac.net.
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