Your brain might be the reason you’re not sleeping after an injury. 🧠

Added: 2026-05-19

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[00:00:04]Number one, we know that if you are trying to grow a body, heal a body, learn a skill, change your body composition, put on muscle, what you got to sleep. Oh, we're obsessed with sleep.

[00:00:15]You know, it we've been talking about, everyone talks about it. Turns out the only time I don't stress about sleep is when we have someone who has an acute injury. And the reason is the brain is doing very specific things in the night.

[00:00:28]And that causes people to panic. Those first few nights after injury, maybe a week, your brain is trying to get you to move in the night. So, let me just reframe this for you. When you are injured or have a tweak and you're feeling like I got to move or I'm waking up from pain, don't panic. If you're not sleeping during that time, don't panic.

[00:00:46]You can easily buffer that. What's happening is that your brain is asking you to move so you can get some decongestion, so you can get off an injured tissue. Literally, the last thing we want to do is drug you during this time because you can sleep through that that movement queue and window. I want you to be okay with, oh, I had to get up and walk around a little bit or, hey, I had to change positions 500 times last night to get comfortable.

[00:01:08]Absolutely. Our brains are getting us to move so we can decongest. Our brains are getting us to move so we can get off of painful tissue. Initially, don't panic.

[00:01:16]Let's manage those things that are driving that. Can we decongest before we go to bed, etc., etc. But in the meantime, if you wake up a lot after a tweak or an injury, don't panic. That's your body protecting yourself.