The bodies natural response to an injury is to produce inflammation. I would assume thats the bodies response from milleniums of evolution so it serves a purpose in the healing of the injury? But the general consensus is once injured we do everything we can to reduce inflammation. I don’t understand and am obviously missing info / intepreting info wrong. ELI5
Or am I on the right track and this is why RICE isn’t recommended as much any more and heat is?
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The discrepancy is in the goal. Most injury recovery is based on allowing some return to work/play, which icing to reduce inflammation can allow. But better recovery happens when the inflammation is allowed to run its course, although that requires more time for just healing as opposed to returning to work with restrictions.
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