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gregwebs ◴[] No.43103445[source]
There are case reports of people achieving remarkable rehabilitation by stressing their bones and muscles with weight lifting, for example: https://startingstrength.com/article/barbell_training_as_reh...

In general the theory I usually see now is that rehabilitation is best achieved by putting pain-free stress on the thing being healed, with some arguing for low levels of pain in some circumstances.

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1. Panzer04 ◴[] No.43107934[source]
In my experience you do have to tolerate pain for things like range of motion/stretching. My ankle wouldnt have near the range of motion it has now after breaking it if I wasn't pushing into a decent amount of pain to stretch it.