no ice, ice, baby
2014-10-23 22:46:42.914293+00 by Dan Lyke 0 comments
Love it when we see long established medical lore start to fall: Why ice doesn’t help an injury, and could make it worse.
Research on the efficacy of ice is, in fact, more tepid than many might think. “Ice is commonly used after acute muscle strains, but there are no clinical studies of its effectiveness,” noted a 2012 study in the British Journal of Sports Medicine. Some studies say this practice could be counterproductive in the long run. “Topical cooling (icing) . . . seems not to improve but, rather, delay recovery from eccentric exercise-induced muscle damage,” according to a 2013 study published in the Journal of Strength and Conditioning Research.