Injury Affects Your Whole Life
The DVCC Podcast
Injury can strike a devastating blow to your life. This is the story of a client, Kevin, who underwent two knee replacements. Leaving him on a large number of pain killers.
These painkillers ruined his ability to live his life on his terms. Just 4 months into his time at DVCC his life has taken a dramatic turn for the better.
Hello and welcome back to Life Long Fitness, where we help you navigate your forties and beyond.
Today we've got a really positive story from one of our clients, Kevin and you might be able to resonate with this.
You may have experienced or be experiencing the same issues that he has, but um, Kevin had two knee replacements about five years ago and they left him in constant levels of excruciating pain. And because of this pain he was prescribed, what, ten ridiculous levels of painkillers? And and that basically ended up him not being able to do anything which obviously frustrated him and something perhaps you might not realise with painkillers and medication, antibiotics is they affect your stomach, your stomach lining.
And so the fact that I think, oh, gosh, I don't to be quoted but about I think over 60% of your serotonin. So the feel good hormone is made in your stomach. The fact that antibiotics and painkillers affect your stomach lining means it affects your production of serotonin. So a lot of people find that after operations, after chronic pain, that they become depressed.
And that stands to reason then that when as I explained before, your stomach can't produce serotonin as it should. So Kevin got to the point about two or three months ago, back when he was really, really quite low and the painkillers were getting him down and he's finding it increasingly more difficult to move. And obviously with COVID and isolating, he found himself not socialising, distancing himself from his passions and basically on top of isolating, became very, very isolated and I'm sure a lot of you can resonate with that, especially this last year.
Injuries don't just affect our body. They obviously affect our mind and our whole life. And so obviously how we feel affects what we do and how we act. And one of the main questions we get asked from people before joining is, can you help me? I'm injured. How can you help me? Because around that, the injury causes me to have chronic pain.
How am I even able to think about exercising when I'm in pain just sitting here and 98, 99% of the time we can we're very, very experienced, experienced with client injuries, with chronic pain, with working around that and trying to help alleviate it. And obviously all of our trials, all of our programs start with an assessment and that's where we actually are able to dive into your health and your kind of your background.
Since coming to DVCC four months ago, Kevin's life has dramatically changed. All of his friends are seeing it in him. They're commenting on his progress, they're commenting on his change of demeanour.
And he's now actually walking with a single crutch rather than two. So as well as rehabilitating his knee and he's gradually reducing his chronic pain. So I hope you gain some inspiration because he's an inspiration to all of us at the DVCC and he's shown that no matter what, change is always possible. So no, what no matter how much pain you're in or how dark and deep the hole feels, there's always a way to make progress.
Kevin's not only getting stronger, reducing his pain, but he's sleeping better and he's able to move forward in life with a whole new focus. And I guess you can say future. So as always, thank you for listening. And if you are injured right now, please take some confidence from Kevin Story. And remember, there's always there's always someone that can help support you.
And if you think that's us, please just contact us on any of our social media sites or go to the DVCC.com
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