This is a blog post from Joshua Stone - and there is no secret that he is against icing an injury. The interesting part of this post is that he includes a letter written by Dr. Gabe Mirkin (who first coined the "RICE" term in 1978 in his Sportsmedicine book). Dr. Mirkin has reversed himself and summarizes in the letter that he gave Joshua Stone permission to post exactly WHY he now thinks that icing is a bad idea. As it turns out, inflammation actually serves a useful role, and his summary is consistent with all of the studies and research I've read on this over the last year. Very interesting!
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05-09-2014, 04:18 AM #1
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Kelly Starrett (K-Star) is a well known trainer in CA who runs the MobilityWOD.com blog and wrote "Becoming a Supple Leopard." In addition to discouraging the ice mindset, his site has incredibly useful stretches to not only avoid injury but improve performance in many sports. Yes, he works mostly with Crossfitters (which I also enjoy), but has a deep schooling on sports physiology.
Incidentally, widening your exercise scope to include free weights and calisthenics will also go a long way to preventing injury. Nature punishes the specialist.
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