How westlondonphysio got me out of bed

Two weeks ago I did myself a gym related injury which turned out to be the worst injury I have ever had from the gym.  I never thought I would get an injury like the one as I thought this only happened to inexperienced people, but be warned it can easily happen, and its extremely painful when it does.

Two weeks ago I was performing bicep curls during my gym workout and towards the end of the workout I decided to throw in 2 cheat sets to go heavier than I usually would.  I have performed cheat sets for well over 10 years and have not suffered any problems, this time however I moved my neck slightly forward when lifting the weight up injuring my neck.  The problem with very heavy cheat sets is that it only takes a small wrong movement to cause serious damage, from now on I won’t be perfroming cheat sets again as they are a very risky maneuver.  When I yanked my head slightly forward I caused a facet joint injury my physio told me, this left me unable to move my head at all, I had to hold one shoulder 2 inches above usual and hold my head up at first just to relieve the pain.  I spent a few days predominantly in bed as the pain was too much standing.  Sleeping was a nightmare as I had to lift my head with my hand to move even a cm to the left.  When I did this injury I thought I had slipped a disk and it was all over.  When I found out it could be repaired I still thought I would be out of action for a good 6  months.  It took Sarah my physio only 7-10 days to get me back feeling good.  I highly recommend physio for sports related injuries and even when you think the worst you will often find out that most things can be fixed yet most people believe they can’t so don’t seek help, often leading them to get worse.

I highly recommend Westlondonphysio just off Kensington high street these guys are experts in gym related injuries, don’t spend time in bed thinking there is no hope leaving time to be a healer get to a physio as soon as you can.  I asked my physio if I had not had any physio and gone about treating it with the proper care and medication, how long it would have taken to heal I was told probably around 2 months to heal, that was a scenario I certainly wanted to avoid as working as a personal trainer having an injured neck is not the best advertisement for your business.

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