No increase in performance without rest

05. April 2021 4 minutes reading time

Lisa Löhnert Lisa Löhnert

If you don’t make any progress despite hard and intensive training, you are usually training too much and not giving your body a break. Muscles only grow after training – the same applies to endurance: here too, training success is only achieved during the rest phase.

Recovery adaptation is crucial for the progress of athletes’ performance.

In order to understand these relationships, it is important to know what actually happens to the muscles during sport. During prolonged, intensive exercise, the body eventually reaches the point where the oxygen intake is no longer sufficient to cover the muscles’ increased energy requirements.

To compensate for the lack of oxygen, it switches to the so-called “anaerobic metabolism”: It begins to convert glucose into lactic acid. This produces lactate. Muscle tenderness and stiffness are common symptoms of fatigue and exercise-induced muscle microtrauma and edema.

Microscopic tears also occur in the muscle during exercise. Repair measures only begin after the end of training. Not only is the lactate broken down and excreted, but there is also an effect known as supercompensation: the trained muscle grows by thickening its fibers. In this way, it tries to prepare itself for the next training session so that it can cope with the same load more easily the next time.

The benefits of compression therapy

Compression therapy helps you to counteract muscle tension and swelling after exercise. Use your rest phase effectively to achieve noticeably fitter legs and better mobility with the same exertion. Only 15 minutes Compression therapy can improve your range of motion. The increased mobility reduces your risk of injury.

The muscle pump is stimulated and supported by recurring pressure from distal to proximal. The more air chambers there are in the cuff, the more gently and effectively the pressure is distributed to the limbs, resulting in noticeably more intensive and effective regeneration.

Apparative compression demonstrably helps your body to remove metabolic waste products that occur during a hard training session or competition (e.g. blood lactate levels). This can shorten the recovery time between training sessions and competitions.

Trust the experts

Medizinisches Know-how – Das PSR Fundament 

SLK Medical Solutions develops and produces medical devices and aids for the global market. In 2013, the company began developing its Apparative Intermittent Compression systems for professional sports. The feedback was so positive that PSR Professional Sports Recovery GmbH was founded in 2018.

We know what is important when it comes to medical products – and we know what athletes need. With Professional Sports Recovery, we combine precisely this know-how into systems that really help you as an athlete. Because they are medically sound, ensure effective recovery and are easy to use.

We have used our many years of experience in the medical and therapeutic field to bring a first-class medical product for regeneration and injury therapy onto the market. Athletes, professional players and physiotherapists around the world now use the V12 PRO system for regeneration.

V12 PRO – Das Recovery-System von PSR

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Einzigartiges Funktionsprinzip

The V12 PRO system is a user-friendly 12-chamber compression system developed and manufactured in Germany. It helps you to recover much faster and relieves the strain on the muscle groups involved. The V12 PRO system also has a supportive effect in the treatment of traumatic injuries, such as swelling after surgery or inflammation. Both pain and the intensity of the swelling are significantly reduced. This means you are fit and ready for action again more quickly.

Das individuelles Regenerationssystem 

It is crucial for the success of compression therapy that you use the right treatment cuff. Compression trousers, leg cuffs, compression jackets and arm cuffs are available, with extension sets if necessary. We can customize your treatment cuffs for an optimal fit.

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Stimulierung der Muskeln 

A powerful compressor with an intelligent control system controls the 12 chambers of the treatment cuff and fills them with air. The rhythmic increase and decrease in sequential pressure stimulates the muscle pump and improves gas exchange and metabolism in the tissue. You can adjust the pressure and duration of therapy to suit your needs.

The rhythmic increase and decrease in pressure stimulates and supports the muscle pump. Venous and lymphatic drainage is promoted. This leads to improved gas exchange and metabolism. The increase in venous flow velocity also has an antithrombotic effect by increasing fibrinolysis (the body’s own dissolution of a blood clot) in the blood and in the vein wall.

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