Why icing an injury may be slowing your repair
Under the Skin #1. A series on the physiology of recovery, written while we build a recovery device. Each piece stands on its own. You can start anywhere. Anil. When we began specifying SmartHeal, we assumed cold would sit in the default session. Ice is what every physio bag carries, what every coach says, what RICE (rest, ice, compression, elevation) taught two generations of athletes. It took about a week of reading to work out that we had it backwards, and the reason we had it backwards is...