Is your neck tender to touch on the spinous processes along the midline of your cervical spine? You might need to go to a doctor and get an xray. Try to minimize movement

Oh shiz. You just gave him an excuse to go full faggy time. Yoga pants + neck collar, look out boyos

so ill highlight the controversy here, because there are two camps on this topic. the goal of immediate ice is to prevent swelling over the next 1-4 days. ice does nothing for swelling that has already occured, but by reducing blood flow to the area immediately you stop fluid from accumulating as much in that interstitial space near the injury. the benefit to this is that when you stop icing, blood can flow normally to the injury later because the arterial vessels arent compressed by swollen tissue. however, others say that we should just let things happen naturally to the tissue because the body knows how to repair itself (i'd argue that's not a true statement because there are certainly tissues where other animals have the capacity to repair but we do not) and by icing you're impeding the flow of blood to the tissue and slowing the regeneration process. i dont know what literature actually exists comparing the two treatments or examining the physiology behind them however

was waiting for this haha

but seriously you should go get an assessment by a doc to see if you need neck xrays, i dont know why you didnt even think of that when you had an 80lb thing fall on your head. concussed maybeÉ

Yeah I always read no icing after the first 2 days.

In my personal experience ice/heat 2mincold/2minhot treatment has always worked best for me going with tears ideology.

But of course I've also read Braxton's side of things saying ibuprofen/ice can reduce prostaglandins that get to the tissue.

Your body is made to fix the problems that occur to it. If trauma occurs to a spot, your body will send blood that has the nutrients and chemicals needed to fix the problem. It also needs blood to get the waste out of the area. Why would you ever want to slow down those two processes? You're trapping waste at the site of trauma and preventing nutrients from reaching the trauma site.

If the arterial vessels are so compressed that they aren't working that effectively, you would have so many more problems from the site of trauma to the distal part of the body.

Our body fixes so many other things that we don't interfere with, so why would you interfere with this process?

Our neurons don't regenerate effectively, connective tissue like cartilage and some ligaments don't regenerate by themselves either. Bone will set by itself but not in any useful way unless fractures are reduced and supported. There are many examples where we need to effect the body for it to recover properly

like fevers make our bodies more inhospitable to viruses n' shit.



so you're saying gramps didn't generate a double bypass all by himselfs?!

also who the fuck gets taken out by widowmaker bananas? this is truly fascinating. i bet you can get some 6 o'clock news coverage, or at least a buzzfeed article.

This post was edited by Wretch on Sep 21 2016 06:13pm

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