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!

Here is the link.