Body awareness guru Thérèse Bertherat insists that your body is the house that you and you alone occupy, yet it's a house to which you've lost the key. The metaphor is striking, especially when you're an athlete who prides yourself on knowing your body. If you've done any serious training, though, you'll have to admit that you sometimes learned your body's boundaries by crossing them. You got injured, you recovered from your injuries, and then, hopefully, you trained more consciously.
Like television's six million dollar man, injured athletes hope for the best: to rebuild themselves better than they were before. To come back "better . . . stronger . . . faster," as the voice from that program so famously intoned. In fact, with the help of sports massage, the recovering body experiences optimum healing, and the recovered body can be stronger than before the injury.
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