Samuel Shashoua, a Tenerife footballer developed in the Tottenham academy, shares in this testimonial his personal experience with rest and its impact on performance and recovery. He looks back on his career and his passion for football, and explains how he has given increasing importance to integral self-care — nutrition, the gym, mental work and sleep — the last of these an aspect he admits he had always found very difficult.
He recounts that he had been dealing with serious sleep problems: he had practically never slept eight hours in a row and would wake up several times during the night, getting up with no energy and in a bad mood. He explains that it was a physiotherapist at his club, Jose, who told him about non-invasive neuromodulation, connecting his poor rest with the inflammatory-type injuries he had suffered and with the importance of sleeping well in order to recover.
