pimg class=”alignright” title=”Ice” src=”http://i247.photobucket.com/albums/gg158/MDA2008/MDA%202011/ice.jpg” alt=”ice” width=”319″ height=”257″ /I#8217;ve said this before, but a title=”What is Inflammation?” href=”http://www.marksdailyapple.com/what-is-inflammation/#axzz2E25f9nFW”inflammation is a necessary response to injury/a. It#8217;s the inflammatory response that increases blood and lymphatic flow to and from the injured tissues, bringing healing nutrients and inflammatory mediators and removing damaged refuse. It#8217;s the inflammatory response that makes injuries hurt, which prevents us from using and re-injuring the injured area. And yeah, the inflammatory response can get out of hand and do more damage than the initial insult, but it#8217;s ultimately how our bodies heal damaged tissues and recover from injuries. If we didn#8217;t have an inflammatory response, we#8217;d never get anywhere. This was the crux of a very interesting a title=”People, We’ve Got to Stop Icing. We Were Wrong, Sooo Wrong.” href=”http://www.mobilitywod.com/2012/08/people-weve-got-to-stop-icing-we-were-wrong-sooo-wrong.html” target=”_blank”blog post/a by Kelly Starrett in which he questioned the typical use of ice after injury. In short, Kelly says that putting ice on […]

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