Should you still ice an injury?

SUBSCRIBE | SHOP | ARCHIVE Written by Dr. Nick Golinvaux Good morning. For decades, icing an injury was treated as unquestionable medical advice. Twist an ankle? Ice it. Pull a muscle? Ice it. Fall and get hurt? Ice it. But over the last several years, researchers have started asking an uncomfortable question: what if some of that advice was wrong? This article explores what ice actually does, where it helps, where it might hurt, and how our thinking about injury recovery has evolved. Read It...