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 short version is that basically everything about our immune and trauma responses is a gamble, our body goes all out and hopes it fixes the problem before it kills us. This system works often enough that it’s been selected for evolutionary, but that doesn’t mean it’s perfect. Inflammation does help us heal, but it’s also among the most extreme of our body’s responses, and thus has a high chance of causing damage, especially if it lasts for too long. That’s why it’s important to keep it in check.
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