Training around old injuries in Da Nang

Who this is for

• You were injured months or years ago. It has healed, but it still talks to you when you train.
• Certain lifts flare something up, so you avoid them, or you have stopped going to the gym altogether.
• You have finished rehab and want to get back to proper strength training without starting from zero.
• You are not in pain day to day, but you do not trust a knee, your back or a shoulder under load.

If you are in pain right now, have a new injury, or something is getting worse, start with an assessment at Danang Physical Therapy instead.

It starts with a movement screen

Your free first session includes a movement screen: a squat, a hip hinge, a single-leg step-down, a push and an overhead reach. I look at what moves well, where your body takes a shortcut, and which positions feel uncomfortable. The screen is not a diagnosis. It tells me how to load you safely and what to keep an eye on as the weights go up.

I read movement with the Kinesiopathological Model: the idea that movements and postures repeated slightly off, thousands of times, are what wear a joint down. If a joint keeps taking a shortcut under load, the answer is usually to change how you move, not to stop training.

How we train around it

1. 01Adjust, do not avoidIf back squats bother your knee, we might use a box squat, a different stance or a split squat, and work back toward the full movement as your control improves.
2. 02Technique before loadWeight goes up only when your technique has earned it. A small fault at a light weight becomes a big one at a heavy weight.
3. 03Train the range you controlWe load the range you can own, then expand it session by session.
4. 04Log how it respondsLoads, reps and how the area feels during and after sessions are tracked, so we know whether a change is helping.
5. 05Change the plan, do not push throughPain that builds from session to session is a signal to change the plan or get it assessed, not something to grind through.

Where training stops and physio starts

Personal training is for people who are ready to train. Assessment, diagnosis and treatment of injuries belong at Danang Physical Therapy, the physiotherapy side of No BS Academy. If something comes up in our sessions that needs a closer look, I will tell you, and you can get it assessed there before we carry on. Once it is settled, you come back to training with a coach who already knows your history.

What it costs

Training around an old injury costs the same as any other coaching: from 600,000 VND per session on a 12 week block, 800,000 VND for a single session, and the first session is free. Every block includes a written program, a meal plan and a free My An Sport Center membership for the length of the block. See all personal training prices.

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