Are you a professional athlete in peak condition with a daily doctor whose main concern is getting you better?
Did you also make up an injury to get out of a meaningless tournament that could negatively impact your actual job?
- Hunkulese
You appear to think my post was a trolling attempt. It was not!
Am I a professional athlete in peak condition? No, not at all. Am I a fat slob who breathes heavy just taking a shower? No, not at all.
The point I was making is, you go to the hospital with massive back pain, the Doctor will do the routine checkup. After that, chances are quite good your Doctor will prescribe an anti-inflammatory drug and tell you to rest for a couple of weeks. So you pop your pills and take it easy for a couple of weeks. Guess what? After a couple of weeks, the pain is completely gone!!! At this point, chances are you are pretty pumped! So now you feel no pain, you grab a 20 pound bag of garbage to go throw out, you lift it up while turning your back a bit, and BAM, you are back to square one! Just because the pain is gone, it does not mean your are fully healed. Hence, double the recovery period! Again, it took me 2 years of chronic back pain to understand this. And I actually am in fairly decent shape! However I will concede that professional athletes have better Doctors than you or I.
And on a final note, even if a professional athlete is in peak condition, he does not get Wolverine like powers to recover from injury. If Usain Bolt, the fastest man in the world, broke a leg, and myself, being in just average shape broke mine at the same time, it will take me 6-8 weeks to recover. But because Usain is an absolute beast in peak condition, you think he is healed in 2,3, or 4 weeks? Sorry, it just does not work that way!
