Blood Flow Restriction

Blood Flow Restriction

Are you injured? Did you recently have surgery? Is something holding you back from your fitness or lifestyle goals? These periods in life can be challenging because you feel limited. How can Blood flow restriction training help?

Blood flow restriction (BFR) training is a training and rehabilitation strategy involving the use of an inflatable tourniquet, around the top of the arm and/or leg to restrict blood flow during exercise. The goal of BFR training is to increase strength gains while lifting lighter loads, which reduces the overall stress on the limb and avoids muscle breakdown.

This means that when you’re injured or recovering from a surgery, it can help you get stronger without loading injured muscles, tendons, ligaments, and joints to the point where we further damage the tissues. At this point over 800 research studies have evaluated BFR and show it’s safe and effective.

Would you like to try BFR? All Proactive locations NOW offer BFR training. Your Proactive therapist will gladly answer any questions you may have.