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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There is actually a new approach on how to treat soft tissue injury that replaces RICE, that involves letting inflammation do the work. The idea is that inflammation is a natural healing process and trying to reduce it could impair healing.
New approach is called PEACE & LOVE:
Protect
Elevate
Avoid anti-inflammatory modalities (ice and meds)
Compress
Educate
after a few days:
Load
Optimism
Vascularisation
Exercise
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