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It really is wild. I don't know how your recovery is going, but for anyone worried about this kind of thibg, I will say, that the body does seem to have some ki

It really is wild. I don't know how your recovery is going, but for anyone worried about this kind of thibg, I will say, that the body does seem to have some kind of memory for prior use snd development generally. For those of us who have worked out moderately to intensely only to suffer an injury or life getting in the way of maintaining consistent practice at the same level, you will find that when you return to working out, you tend to return to fairly close to your prior peak in far less time than it took to get there. Similar to how muscle memory can lead to very quick progression back to your prior level of skill in something that you haven't done in years. You won't be back to your prior peak, but you'll close 70-90% of the gap shockingly quick. EDIT: One thing to look out for in situations like GP though, in which development becomes lopsided, is your body will develop lopsided compensation for the disaprity. A lot of physiotherapy often involves learning to force your body to not engage in these compensatory measures so that the diminished or injured part of your body can rebuild its strength and stability correctly.

Baeocystin 2y ago
Due to a gnarly accident, my right arm was in a cast for six months. They had to change the cast several times due to shrinking soft tissue, and by the time the cast came off, from wrist to elbow was all the same width. It was awful. But, like you said, it came back to the 80% level very quickly. At first I was genuinely worried that I'd never recover, but at three months I was already two-thirds of the way to normal, and was at 95% by a year.
katzenversteher 2y ago
I've read somewhere that the peviously trained cells, while after injury and long rest period smaller and fewer are still built with a large number of mitochondria (that was needed for the previous performance levels). This seems to be one of the muscle memory mechanisms.
- jaggederest 2y ago
  For muscles, at least, which are not single cells but actually syncytia with multiple nucleuses, weight-bearing exercise produces an increase in the number of nucleuses and thus a relatively permanent increase in the ability of the syncytia to synthesize protein. So retraining tends to be about double or even triple the speed of the original adaptation. This is one additional reason you should be extremely skeptical about "before and after" photos
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munificent 2y ago
> I don't know how your recovery is going Slowly. Lots of complications. I'm eight months away from the accident and a month past the third and hopefully last surgery. Right now I'm focused on getting range of motion back before new scar tissue forms, then I'll switch to building strength back. I'll probably always have some stiffness in that joint but with luck I'll be back to all of my usual activities later this year.

Baeocystin 2y ago

Due to a gnarly accident, my right arm was in a cast for six months. They had to change the cast several times due to shrinking soft tissue, and by the time the cast came off, from wrist to elbow was all the same width. It was awful. But, like you said, it came back to the 80% level very quickly. At first I was genuinely worried that I'd never recover, but at three months I was already two-thirds of the way to normal, and was at 95% by a year.

katzenversteher 2y ago

I've read somewhere that the peviously trained cells, while after injury and long rest period smaller and fewer are still built with a large number of mitochondria (that was needed for the previous performance levels). This seems to be one of the muscle memory mechanisms.

jaggederest 2y ago
For muscles, at least, which are not single cells but actually syncytia with multiple nucleuses, weight-bearing exercise produces an increase in the number of nucleuses and thus a relatively permanent increase in the ability of the syncytia to synthesize protein. So retraining tends to be about double or even triple the speed of the original adaptation. This is one additional reason you should be extremely skeptical about "before and after" photos
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munificent 2y ago

> I don't know how your recovery is going Slowly. Lots of complications. I'm eight months away from the accident and a month past the third and hopefully last surgery. Right now I'm focused on getting range of motion back before new scar tissue forms, then I'll switch to building strength back. I'll probably always have some stiffness in that joint but with luck I'll be back to all of my usual activities later this year.