Now that's interesting to read that ice is no longer recommended. At my daughter's gymnastics it's still the goto for any injury, even when they complain it just hurts them all the more. A good few of the coaches are medically trained by profession too! The main focus seems to be to stop the swelling.
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It really is a tough habit to break! A fellow trainer had shared that research with us all a while back (perhaps there was even a book someone put out with the information in there? I'll have to ask). I think what's even harder to combat is that people tend to expect it, so even if you know better sometimes you offer it to appease someone. I can imagine that is especially so with children. You don't want the parents to think you're not helping if you are a youth athletics coach. Though as Marike pointed out, more often than not the latest recommendations aren't known yet as people don't always take the time to continue to expand their knowledge with the latest updates.
I think you nailed it with expectation and trying to appease someone @plantstoplanks. Ice NUMBS and we tend to think less pain = healing. The studies show this to be NOT true. What surprised me last night the most is I developed a fever - and yes, I am that person propped up in bed at 11pm googling inflammation and fever. It's real and a fascinating healing response to soft tissue trauma. Might try and blog about that too.
Luckily fever is gone today cos going to the shops here with fever in Covid era? 🤣
Oh gosh, I can only imagine trying to explain that to the shops. The only place I've been so far where they take temperatures is actually at the farmers market. Seems silly since it is all outdoors, but I think they only do it to give people a sense of security (false or otherwise). I'm sure the fever/inflammation post would be a good one to hit!
Do blog about it!! I know fevers are GOOD.. but definitely interested in these readings..
@plantstoplanks They take your fever and track&trace details here to go into a convenience store and even to tank petrol. There's ONE local shop where they know me, and the local market wave me through if I look like I'm in a hurry, which is what I did today. I STILL have fever 36 hours on. Interesting to observe.
Some very good points, which make sense. I recently heard that for some injuries they would be better treated with heat, but heat can be detrimental for other injuries, whereas ice isn't going to cause harm on any injury, so that's the better default if you're going to do something.
I think that coaches and doctors are taught to think "I made it" and not to see medicine as an evolving field. It might be a good post to research and explain not only why we now longer ice injuries, but how and why it SLOWS healing. It DOES reduce pain and make things numb and visibly prettier. but the clinical studies do not bear it out an a good idea any longer.
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It would be so much easier if we could just it all and that's it! Medical is an area where we really struggle we with accepting that there's always new information coming in which contradicts what we previously knew, yet we're also very aware that we need to be continually updating to include that new information. Perhaps it's the discomfort in realising that as a healer you've been doing the wrong thing all this time, which is fighting the acceptance that its bound to happen as we continue to discover new things.
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