Voodoo for gym & BJJ injuries

Getting hurt sucks

Especially when you're trying to get healthier

But if you're in the gym or on the mat long enough, injuries happen

But the GOOD news and what you must remember is that as long as it wasn't an acute injury (think car crash or broken bone)...

You can heal up quickly...

If you know what you're doing. 

Back in the 70's a Japanese Dr named Katsu created a technique designed to heal ACL tears that would cut about 50% off the recovery time.

He did this by applying bands (almost tourniquet style) to the leg and then doing light movements.

The thought was that by occluding blood in the muscle you would drive healing

BUT IT'S ACTUALLY SO MUCH COOLER THAN THAT

When you put a band on your arm or leg and start doing curls some other movement with it, you don't need much weight to start getting a deep burn

And when you get that burn a lot of other things start happening.

1. You get a dump of IGF-1 - (insulin growth factor) it's related to growth of muscle and healing of tissue.
2. You get a big hit of HGH (natural human growth hormone)
3. You get additional healing from the blood being forced into the area (this only applies if you band the affected limb)
4. Get them on Amazon (you can spend up to 500 bucks on these but the $12 ones are a good place to start)

I recorded a 12 minute podcast about this - you can check it out here

Here are two other ways to promote healing

1. Take FastAid 2-3x per day
   1. This will improve your bodies ability to recover, build muscle, and gives you the ability to facilitate healing in the body .
   2. Get FastAid Here
2. Use Voodoo Bands 
   1. These are a great way of fixing the extremities. Knees, ankles, wrists, elbows do great with this.
   2. Here's a video of Kelly Starrett fixing someone's ankle sprain with a band. (I take these on every hike I do, can't tell you how often I've wrapped random people's ankles so they could hike back down) 
   3. Get them on Amazon - IMO if you do BJJ or hike a lot you NEED a pair.

I'm not a physical therapist by any stretch, but if you've been dealing with pain for a while and you weren't in a big accident, hit me up here and I can point you in the right direction. 

Hope this was helpful, but I've talked to a LOT of people over the last two weeks dealing with little injuries and I know how frustrating those can be.

Talk soon,

Nate Palmer
Founder. MDB Labs.