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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I know this is a specific example but inflammation in professional Athletes can increase recovery time and decrease performance and some of that can be mitigated with ice baths / anti inflammatory medication/ wraps. However it does appear to be part of the healing process for other things like lifting weights and mitigation of that inflammatory response my “hinder your gains” so we want to reduce it when it’s an annoyance or too much and let our body do it’s thing when we know it’s taking care of itself in a good way.
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