Showing posts with label Icing. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Icing. Show all posts

Friday, July 1, 2016

Should You Ice Your Tennis Elbow?


Should you use ice, "Cryotherapy" or the RICE Protocol to treat your Tennis Elbow or Golfer's Elbow?

Actually, no – Despite what many experts and authorities claim – Learn why icing does NOT help your tendon injury heal and how this treatment can actually slow your recovery instead of aiding it.

Full article on Ice and Tennis Elbow 

Here's my latest Tennis Elbow Classroom Podcst episode!

Thursday, August 20, 2015

Ice Age Melting: Why RICE Is Actually Wrong

RICE Protocol Treating Tennis Elbow

A sacred cow of sports medicine, the R.I.C.E. protocol (Rest, Ice, Compression, Elevation) is now on the chopping block.

Even “Doctor RICE” has reversed his position. (Gabe Mirkin, M.D. co author of 'The Sports Medicine Book,' who coined the RICE acronym for sports injury first aid, in the first place, has radically changed his position on icing / Cryotherapy, as well as the 'Rest' recommendation)...

Saturday, May 19, 2012

Tennis Elbow Treatment - Forget The Ice!

If you've had Tennis Elbow longer than ten minutes you've undoubtedly heard that one of the standard treatments for Tennis Elbow is ice therapy - and that this supposedly has something to do with "reducing inflammation"

Well, I'm just going to be blunt here. I'm sick of this myth - It's a bunch of bunk. And here's a video I made to explain why icing is NOT a real Tennis Elbow treatment: