How Tony Hawk Is Still Skating At 55 Years Old
The Checkup with Doctor Mike
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The Importance of Timelines in Rehab
I think my experience was more that I learned to sort of have any recommendations of timelines from doctors. But in the earlier days, I did always expedite those timelines because getting back to it sooner and being active, it encouraged the healing more. So like we've updated our guidelines where before, if someone had a low back strain or sciatica, we would say, oh, you should rest bed rest. That's not ideal; no bed rest is not ideal makes it worse,. Especially past like a day or two. You spray an ankle these days. It's right away. Get it moving as fast as possible. Maybe not weight bearing, but at least doing the alphabet and all
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