Icing a sprain may actually interfere with healing. Check out what science is telling us now.
Icing a sprain may actually interfere with healing. Check out what science is telling us now. A while ago, I began offering patients a new brochure called RICE no more on what to do instead of icing everything swollen and painful. It was based on the current science. Apparently, the public and health professionals are just starting to embrace these new ideas. The evidence is growing that icing as we used to do it based on dogma from the 1970s does not stand up to scientific scrutiny according to a recent Washington Post article. A recent blog post takes this
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