How you manage your injury immediately after it happens will dictate how the musculoskeletal system of your body recovers. No pressure, right? Well that's what your athletic therapist is busy controlling immediately after your injury occurred. When your body sustains an injury like your biceps muscle from overuse or trauma will result in swelling. Imagine your body responding to tissue damage like it was a motor vehicle collision (biceps) and swelling rushing to the area would be fire and paramedics arriving on-site to access the situation and provide support. Sometimes you'll see 4-5 firetrucks with maybe 3 ambulances. Once they've access the area, only the emergency services needed stay on-site while the rest exit back into traffic. Speaking of traffic, while all those emergency vehicles are heading to the collision area, traffic slows down allowing them to safely arrive at their destination. Same thing happens with your body; everything slows down to limit further damage or injury to the area. This is why you'll end up moving slower than normal, if you try to push yourself to move the way you used to, you'll experience pain.