5 Pro Tips To Bounce Back From An Overuse Injury

An overuse injury can be the beginning of the end for highly active service members, but it doesn’t have to be. Here’s how to stay in the fight.
Just about every veteran and service member I know has, at some point, injured themselves. And it was my own injuries that ultimately pushed me into the fitness industry, where I learned fancy terms like “corrective exercise,” “dysfunctional movement patterns,” and my favorite: “the cumulative injury cycle.” I also learned that the most common injuries — tendonitis, stress fractures, muscle strains, etc. — are overuse injuries caused by dysfunctional movement patterns.