There shouldn’t be any rest period really: it’s detrimental, and not only with muscle strain injuries,” says Monika Bayer, as she calls for sports and fitness athletes of all levels to move on from received injury rehab wisdom.
We’re discussing the best way to treat strains and sprains of various levels of severity, and the post-doctoral researcher from the Institute of Sports Medicine, Copenhagen, is very clear that time alone is not the great healer.