When Rest Stops Working: A North Sydney Physiotherapist's Take on Pain
Plenty of people rest an injury for weeks, barely move, do everything "right" by the old rulebook, and still end up frustrated when nothing's changed. It's a strange spot to be in, following the advice exactly, and the body just doesn't hold up its end of the deal. The honest answer is that a lot of that advice hasn't kept up with what's actually understood about pain anymore. The old logic was simple enough. Something hurts, you stop using it, you wait, it gets better. That's not wrong exactly, it's just incomplete, and for a lot of people it ends up being the wrong call past a certain point. As a physiotherapist North Sydney locals turn to for exactly this issue, this is one of the more common misunderstandings that comes up in practice. Pain and Damage Aren't the Same Thing This tends to catch people off guard the first time they hear it: how much something hurts doesn't reliably tell you how damaged it is. Scans regularly come back sho...
