How do you guys cope with general pain?

[Fast Twitch Fiber]

I tried to do legs tonight. My knees were hurting when I was warming up on the bike. Things only got worse. How do you guys deal with nagging injuries? Has anyone ever taken a long layoff, like 2 months to let everything heal? I've got pain in my rotator cuffs, knees, low back, neck, and wrists. It's just getting too much

 

[JeSt3r]

to be honest...i just down sum tylenol and dont think about it...after the workout take a nice ice bath then put the heating pad on and go to bed....boy this life style is painful =(

 

[Rex]

My knees crack all the damn time. I'm told it's cartiledge deterioration, and to get some glucosamine. Other than that there is nothing to do for it. The Corps loves to run, my knees don't. The Corps wins.

 

[b fold the truth]

I'm the wrong guy to talk about training with pain with.

Had a trainer look at my hamstring today and his face turned white when he felt around on the tendons. Injury was December, I've done two meets since. It is just pain..only pain.

Right now...what hurts:
both wrists
forearms and tendons on both arms
both bicep tendons
delts a little tender with deep tissue massage
lower back is a little tight
left hamstring, of course
knees tender a few times a week
left ankle hurts to walk sometimes
fingers ache
neck is a little sore
elbows ache from time to time (2x a week or so)

I've trained hard and heavy 2x this week so far and 2 more times to go. I'll take two Aleve before I do events on Sunday, from there on out I'll give myself a massage one very joint and most muscles nightly, and I use a lot of icy-hot.

I hurt. All athletes do...ALL athletes.

B True

 

[SAGAT]

the way i deal with it is just think about times when my body hurt alot more. that usually does the trick since i have quite a bit of reference points when it comes do that lol, as i'm sure we all do.
however if it's hurting your training a layoff would not be a bad idea, though 2 months seems awfully long. longest i ever took a layoff was 1 week, and even that seemed like an eternity.

 

[bigdho]

nubain

 

[cwick0]

If your hurting in that many locations are you overtraining or not giving things ample time to recover? A couple of week layoff may not hurt you, but i dont know if it would help. I have horrible knees, so i dont go heavy on squats or deads...i stop at 315 even though i could go higher.

 

[GoldenDelicious]

mate i drill matients not to put up with pain, but rather to pop a pill, so tahts just what i do.

if it hurts and you can take a paracetamol, then do it for goodness sakes. pain puts me in a bad mood

 

[Fast Twitch Fiber]

I can handle the pain throughout my regular day, the problem is when I'm actually lifting. I cut several sets short because my knees just hurt too much plus my hip flexors felt like they were going to snap. I just can't concentrate on lifting the weight when the pain reaches a certain point.

 

[big4life]

I will try to work through or around pain, injuries are another story.

 

[theoak01]

I work through it until its a nagging daily pain and doing regular things is a pain ,then Ill take some time off,its good for the mind also and lets me enjopy other hobbies

 

[Scotsman]

Unforetuneatly for me I love pain. Therefore I get into the trouble of training through pain that I should probably be resting because of. If it seems like something that is going be detrimental to my training I take some time off to heal up. Like B-true said all athletes hurt it is just part of sports that while you are in season you are going to hurt. The only time you won't hurt is when you rest. The conundrum is sorting out which is serious enough to need rest or is you should bow up and get after it.

Here's how crazy I am with pain. I pour rubbing alcohol on cuts just becasue it hurts more than peroxide. I like getting tattooed as I think it feels good. I dislocated my elbow throwing shot put then went to a fence grabbed hold and jerked back to reset it the threw discus. My pain threshold is such that by the time I feel it pain killers don't work. When I tore the cartiledge out of my right knee I turned down prescription pain meds much to the shock the doctor. Anyway I am just plain crazy sometimes.

Cheers,
Scotsman

 

[b fold the truth]

mate i drill matients not to put up with pain, but rather to pop a pill, so tahts just what i do.

if it hurts and you can take a paracetamol, then do it for goodness sakes. pain puts me in a bad mood

Solpadene (sp) is nice too.

B True