Many injuries come down to one of two things, either you have muscles that aren't balanced and are pulling you out of alignment (Overuse Injuries) or your joint are not quite strong or flexible enough to handle the forces being placed on them (Acute Injuries).

How does a Pain Free Plan help prevent overuse injures?

These injuries usually come on slowly because they are caused by constant use. For example, gamers get carpal tunnel; climbers, golfer, and tennis players struggle with their elbows; and martial artists fight their knees and shoulders. The constant use can lead to a muscle that is much stronger than the ones around, forcing you out of alignment or pulling on the joint in a strange way.  Deal with this for long enough and you gain your very own overuse injury. (Mine was an elbow)

Pain Free Plans prevent this but making sure you are massaging and stretching the muscles that are work too hard and strengthening the muscles.  The massaging and stretching get the strong muscle to relax a little while the strengthening wakes up the lazier muscles and helps them keep up their overachieving peer. This prevents the pain and injury.

How does a Pain Free Plan help prevent acute injuries?

These can be harder to see how they can be prevented because they happen when you fall, get hit, or change directions too quickly.  They are the tears, breaks, strains, and sprains. the ones that a Pain Free Plan and help prevent are the one that are soft tissue damage. (tear, sprains, and strains) Lets pretend I went for hike in the fall.

There are leaves everywhere and it is a little wet so the ground in the mountains is treacherous. I stepped somewhere that wasn't stable and I rolled my ankle. Ouch! A Pain Free Plan would have improved my flexibility so that my ankle would have to go farther before it was in danger.  It also would have done exercises that made all the stabilizing muscles much better at stopping it from going into the danger zone.  These two things together could have saved my ankle and my hike.

Take an Injury Risk Assessment to discover where you should focus your injury prevention efforts.