{"id":23113,"date":"2025-03-03T09:01:38","date_gmt":"2025-03-03T10:01:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/medexperts.pro\/?p=23113"},"modified":"2025-03-03T10:26:25","modified_gmt":"2025-03-03T10:26:25","slug":"your-workout-should-hurt-but-when-is-pain-a-red-flag","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/?p=23113","title":{"rendered":"Your Workout Should Hurt. But When Is Pain a Red Flag?"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Here\u2019s how to know whether it\u2019s safe to push through.<\/p>\n

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It\u2019s 6:15 a.m. and you are five minutes into your first run in weeks. The temperature is perfect and the sun is just emerging, turning the sky into a stained glass masterpiece.<\/p>\n

Then you feel a twinge in your knee stepping onto a curb. Was there a click? It aches a little, but not badly. Maybe you\u2019re just rusty \u2014 or maybe it\u2019s the beginning of a meniscus tear. Should you push through, or is your workout done?<\/p>\n

In an ideal world, you would be able to immediately consult a doctor every time you felt pain during exercise. But in real life, you have to make judgment calls. Most of the time, you can walk it off, suck it up or push through it. But other times, you risk real injury.<\/p>\n

Everyone\u2019s perception of pain is different, and doctors are loathe to make sweeping statements that might cause someone to exacerbate an injury. But the choices you make in the moment \u2014 or the next day \u2014 can be the difference between a temporary nuisance and a persistent problem, said Beth Darnell, an expert in pain psychology at Stanford University and a former ultramarathoner.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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\u201cIt actually might not have been a big deal, but suddenly we\u2019ve created a big deal because we pushed through an additional five miles,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n

So we turned to a few pain and movement experts for tips on what to watch out for the next time your shoulder starts to complain at the gym.<\/p>\n

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Here\u2019s how to know whether it\u2019s safe to push through.It\u2019s 6:15 a.m. and you are five minutes into your first run in weeks. The temperature is perfect and the sun is just emerging, turning the sky into a stained glass masterpiece.Then you feel a twinge in your knee stepping onto a curb. Was there a click? It aches a little, but not badly. Maybe you\u2019re just rusty \u2014 or maybe it\u2019s the beginning of a meniscus tear. Should you push through, or is your workout done?In an ideal world, you would be able to immediately consult a doctor every time you felt pain during exercise. But in real life, you have to make judgment calls. Most of the time, you can walk it off, suck it up or push through it. But other times, you risk real injury.Everyone\u2019s perception of pain is different, and doctors are loathe to make sweeping statements that might cause someone to exacerbate an injury. But the choices you make in the moment \u2014 or the next day \u2014 can be the difference between a temporary nuisance and a persistent problem, said Beth Darnell, an expert in pain psychology at Stanford University and a former ultramarathoner.\u201cIt actually might not have been a big deal, but suddenly we\u2019ve created a big deal because we pushed through an additional five miles,\u201d she said.So we turned to a few pain and movement experts for tips on what to watch out for the next time your shoulder starts to complain at the gym.We are having trouble retrieving the article content.Please enable JavaScript in your browser settings.Thank you for your patience while we verify access. If you are in Reader mode please exit and\u00a0log into\u00a0your Times account, or\u00a0subscribe\u00a0for all of The Times.Thank you for your patience while we verify access.Already a subscriber?\u00a0Log in.Want all of The Times?\u00a0Subscribe.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":23115,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23113","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-lifestyle"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23113","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=23113"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23113\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23116,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23113\/revisions\/23116"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/23115"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23113"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23113"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23113"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}