Factors Influencing Career Longevity of Athletes and How to Manage It With coMra

by Michail Tzvetanov

There are many factors that determine how long an athlete will stay at the top of their game and will be able to deliver great performances. Genetics, the environment their body and organism were formed in, the method of training and regeneration, diet and several others play a role. In this article, I have focused only on the factors that can be reliably influenced by coMra-Therapy. Let’s take a look…

Fatigue and depletion of energy reserves

When it comes to over-training, every athlete who works hard on themselves and tries to constantly improve is balancing on a very thin edge. We will not rest until we see that we’re better, faster, stronger and have more endurance. And once we achieve those, we want to go even further. It frequently happens that we don’t give our bodies enough time or space to breathe and draw new life force. Stress and fatigue accumulate, and the body’s regeneration processes slow down. This poorly chosen path only leads to further injury or to illness caused by seasonal viruses because our bodies have deficient immunity.
CoMra therapy accelerates regeneration, recharges the body’s energy reserves and thus reduces the risks due to over-training. To put it simply, thanks to the regular use of coMra in their routine, athletes recover faster and can train more often. In addition, coMra also supports the normal function of the immune system and helps the body to defend against pathogens.

Ageing and slowing down the regeneration process

“It’s not what it used to be …” We’ve all heard this, and we may have even said it. I myself am convinced that a slowdown of the body’s regeneration due to ageing isn’t caused by physiological changes alone. Lifestyle is also to blame. When you are young, you can focus mainly on yourself and your own interests but age brings other responsibilities. At one point, you begin to invest a great deal of energy into areas of life that previously didn’t bother you. As the years go by, the body’s ability to regenerate gradually decreases; it is a natural process taking place at a cellular level. A combination of these factors leads to an increase in the amount of time required for the body to recover after exercise. A few hours or a day isn’t enough to regenerate any more. Suddenly, you need two, three and often more days at a time to be able to deliver top performance again.

The fuel of all processes in the body, including regenerative processes, is ATP (adenosine triphosphate), which is produced and stored in our cells (specifically in mitochondria). The higher the levels of ATP in our cells, the better our bodies are able to function and defend themselves. Therefore, coMra with its four components effectively stimulates the creation of ATP in mitochondria. As a result, cells are able to restore their function much faster and then all of the regenerative or defensive systems and mechanisms in the body function optimally.

Chronic injuries

Sports with a focus on top performance may not always be healthy for the body. Even recreational athletes know that injuries appearing here and there simply persist, do not subside and sometimes have the tendency to reoccur. This is the reason why many people end their sports careers for good or in better cases they change disciplines but give up their dreams of peak performance.

Actually, coMra has a very successful case history in the treatment of long-term and persistent chronic injuries. Its primary added value in this regard is in the support of the tissue regeneration through a holistic approach. In practice, this means that in addition to the direct treatment of the wound site, regeneration can be accelerated by supporting the optimal function of the body’s control systems involved in the regeneration process. Additionally, coMra can be applied to stimulate the lymphatic or nervous system in combination with the treatment of selected organs, such as the heart or adrenal glands. This stimulates and intensifies the process of tissue regeneration and initiates the treatment of persistent injuries and problems.

Regenerating nerve fibers after injury

A frequent reason why professional athletes end their careers early is the accumulation of untreated injuries. This is due, for example, to a sped-up return to activity after an injury. Unfortunately, it usually happens because an athlete feels good and, at first glance, has no external signs of injury after rehabilitation (such as pain and other discomfort during exercise). But many delicate processes in the body have not yet been completely restored. These are mainly processes that are taken care of by delicate tissues such as nerve fibers. With tissue injuries, such as a ruptured ligament, nerve signalling disorders – the process of transmitting information from the brain to the body and back – can also occur. Interrupting the flow of information between the locomotor system and the brain can lead to cognitive dysfunction. In simple words, this may negatively affect the speed and fluidity of the musculoskeletal system response. Unlike muscle fibers, tendons or bones, nerve fibers regenerate much more slowly and the time it takes to fully recover is much longer.

Impairment of cognitive functions as a result of injuries to the musculoskeletal system do not usually pose a great danger for people in everyday life. But for professional athletes in a competitive environment, where everything often takes place within hundredths of a second, the situation is different. All it takes is one slower reaction and the original injury is renewed or a completely new one occurs. It is therefore not out of the ordinary for athletes go from one injury to the next and to practically never be able to recover fully.

In a very gentle and effective way, coMra supports the natural healing process in every cell of the body and also contributes to the accelerated recovery of damaged nerve fibers. Thanks to coMra, not only can an athlete speed up their return to activity after an injury, but at the same time they can ensure a high-quality recovery. All of that while lowering the risk of an incomplete healing of nerve fibers and a restored cognitive function of the musculoskeletal system.

Pain

Pain is an everyday part of athletes’ lives. Top-level performances in top-level sport simply hurt. Many athletes turn to painkillers to deal with the pain. It’s quite common for athletes to take analgesics before a match, race or competition just to prevent any pain that might put them out of the action. As a result of long-term abuse of analgesics, internal organs are damaged (liver, kidneys, heart) and athletes are shut out of active competition.

In that sense, coMra can be used both for the control of acute pain (rapid analgesic effect) and for the treatment of chronic pain. The application of coMra in cases of acute pain leads from partial to complete relief, and the repeated application of coMra can keep pain under control. At the same time, some of the comprehensive coMra treatment protocols can be begun (according to the type and origin of the pain) to support and stimulate natural healing processes and to treat injuries and infections. While coMra is non-invasive and gentle on the body it can be a good alternative to the various pain pills.

Mental balance

For athletes, psychology plays a huge part. It can turn around the best-played match or help the greatest outsider win a race. This is why nearly every top athlete nowadays has their own personal psychologist or life coach. The goal is to get to the optimal mental state to deliver maximum performance, to manage pre-start stress and jitters as well as to maintain mental balance during the long months of preparation. Even if you can’t afford to hire a personal sports psychologist, there’s still hope …

Applying coMra therapy will help you to induce a state of calm and mental composure thus overcoming feelings of anxiety and pre-start jitters. There’s nothing miraculous about it. Stress is the body’s reaction to a person’s emotional state, in which the stress hormones cortisol and adrenaline flood the body. Our bodies react to situations that the brain perceives of as dangerous. Thanks to cortisol and adrenaline, the body awakens our hidden energy reserves and prepares to deal with situations that require either fight or flight. This state is influenced by various emotional perceptions. It can be very beneficial to use coMra in these situations because it will harmonize the hormone levels in the body and thus will contribute to the induction of a state of inner calm and mental balance.

To start using coMra, first search your health issue in the coMra User Guide. If you can find it, start applying the relevant to it treatment protocol. If you do not find it, start with coMra Universal 3 and coMra Universal 5 protocols. If you have questions and need support by an expert, please contact us..