Procedure

Cupping therapy

Skip the cups. Bruises on your back, and nothing under them.

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Electroacupuncture

Don't buy it for your back. The one thing it's clearly fixed is a leaking bladder.

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Acupuncture for chronic pain

Try it for your bad back, judge it by session six, and don't prepay twenty.

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Therapeutic ultrasound

Turn down the ultrasound wand at physio. It's doing nothing for your back.

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Extracorporeal shockwave therapy

Get shockwave for heel pain or a bad shoulder. Skip it for Achilles and knee.

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Trigger point dry needling

Buy a few sessions when pain's blocking training. Don't buy the block of ten.

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Functional Movement Screen as an injury-prediction tool

Don't buy corrective exercise off a movement screen score.

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Isometric loading for tendon pain

Use the holds for game-day pain, then train the leg like normal.

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Eccentric loading for tendinopathy

Load the sore tendon for 12 weeks. Resting it is what keeps it sore.

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Kinesiology tape

Buy the cheap roll and tape it yourself. The pattern doesn't matter.

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Graduated compression garments

Wear the tights for how they feel. They won't bring your strength back faster.

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Intermittent pneumatic compression boots

Don't buy recovery boots. They fix how sore you feel, not how you perform.

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