How Does Icing an Injury Help?
Icing for rehabilitation and Injury Treatment Probably one of the first things you do when you bang your knee or twist your ankle is put an ice pack on the injury. You probably know that that can help reduce swelling and dull the pain, especially within the first couple days after you get hurt. But why interfere with the way your bodys trying to naturally heal itself When you pull a muscle stretch a tendon or burst a blood vessel that triggers your bodys, inflammatory response? It sends a bunch of blood cells and fluids to repair the damage, And that is an important part of the healing process. The problem is your inflammatory response tends to overreact If youve ever gotten hay fever in the spring and felt like your eyes and nose were going to melt off your face. You know what Im talkin about Too much swelling can cause a bit of a traffic jam with all the fluids rushing in which can cut off nearby cells from getting the oxygen they need to keep functioning. And. That is where icing a...