Being injured and going through rehab isn't fun. For starters, you're in pain, which by definition is an unpleasant experience, your often taken away from doing the things you enjoy, and it can also be time and money consuming.
However, as physios we do commonly see some hidden benefits that people don't often consider when starting.
In some cases we've seen people that weren't particularly active, or hadn't resistance trained in the past really start to enjoy strength training and start to realise all the other health benefits that come along with it.
In other cases, because we are addressing causative issues, which may be general physical capacity or strength and mobility in specific areas of the body, people find that other little niggles also start to go away, and that they become more resilient to other injury in the future.
And this is particularly the case with athletes, who might go through a surgery, which generally has a long rehabilitation phase, during which they address multiple weak areas, and come out the other side performing better than they ever did.
So if you're starting the rehab process, get into it with an open mind and you might find some improvements to your life on the other side.
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