Whenever breaking a bone or spraining something or things of that nature, PTs and orthopedists always say “if it doesn’t hurt it’s fine.”
What would be scenarios where pain (or lack thereof) DOESN’T properly let you know if something is fully healed or injured or not?
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Back in November, I full on tore my hamstring tendon up by my butt while stretching. Heard the pop and everything. It… just kind of ached a little bit. Absolutely no pain or discomfort in the events leading up to it.
Nowadays, it doesn’t acutely *hurt,* but I get a very definite sense of ‘If you continue this movement, this tendon is going to rupture’ because I hit a limit of how far the leg can actually move. I 100% cannot rely on pain as an indication of whether I should or shouldn’t do something with that leg.
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