When something gets tweaked, one of the first things I’m paying attention to is swelling. 🔍

Hey, do you have a plan when you something goes wrong and you tweak yourself? I bet you don't. Or I bet you do, it's called bourbon and ibuprofen, right? So, one of the things we see in this athletic community is that we've got real good at recovering, real good at training, nutrition, etc. But, when something goes wrong, we sort of freak out and default to what our moms did in the '80s. Like, let's just ice it and not move it and maybe don't look at it. Instead, we want to aggressively, aggressively manage swelling early on. A lot of times when I presented with an acute injury or tweak, something that maybe doesn't need a medical intervention, but hey, we've got something swollen. Those thing has been swollen for many days, and that's a problem. That swelling inhibits musculature, that swelling prevents healing, it keeps all the collagen tissues from getting down, it rate limits blood flow to that area, and that swelling can be a huge driver of sensitization, aka pain. So, if we know it's going to snow for 24 hours, we can wait for 24 hours and go out with 2 ft of snow and shovel away. Or, we can try to get ahead of that swelling every hour or so, and we just go out with a broom and take care of it. Which sets us up for a lot more early mobilization, return to play, we don't lose the muscles, etc., etc. We love the H-Wave for this because it allows us to get a non-fatiguing muscle contraction when we overdo it. I'm just put it on low here. I'm going to pump above and maybe below. And what's happening here is now I'm getting this muscle contraction that is dumping the lymphatics. It's moving that lymph further and further up in the system. These joints are drained by the deep lymphatic system, and we've got to have a strategy to manage that ahead. The bottom line is if I don't have access to compression, elevating isn't cutting it, this is sort of our Bugatti level thinking, how do we get as much decongestion in the system as we can? Turns out, it's non-fatiguing muscle contraction that we can go 20 out of 24 hours a day. Check it out.