Are you confused with the conflicting information that you have read online or shared by your friends – why does one injury need ice while another needs a warm compress? Perhaps you are puzzled why a cold and/or warm compress were applied at certain times during physiotherapy sessions. For the fourth article in our series on sports injuries, a sports medicine physician explains when you should apply warm and cold therapy for sports-related injuries.
Are you confused with the conflicting information that you have read online or shared by your friends – why does one injury need ice while another needs a warm compress? Perhaps you are puzzled why a cold and/or warm compress were applied at certain times during physiotherapy sessions. For the fourth article in our series on sports injuries, a sports medicine physician explains when you should apply warm and cold therapy for sports-related injuries.
Warm therapy comprises warm compress, warm towels, heat-producing electrotherapeutic modalities and basically anything that provides heat or warmth.
In the same manner, cold therapy includes ice, cold compress and cold-producing electrotherapeutic modalities.
A cold pack is recommended if active inflammation is present especially in acute injuries such as:
1 acute (newly occurring) muscle strains or tears
2 acute ligamentous sprains or tears
3 acute flare of arthritic joints which includes knee osteoarthritis
4 new bruising due to contusions to soft tissue
5 delayed onset of muscle soreness (DOMS).
In a nutshell, if you have any injury that causes sudden pain and there is increased warmth in the painful area, you will not go too wrong by applying a cold pack.
WHY IS A COLD PACK USEFUL FOR THE ABOVE CONDITIONS?
There will be bleeding and hematoma (blood clot) in acute soft tissue injuries. Sometimes, the bleeding takes a while to stop which is why you will experience swelling. If the bleeding is superficial enough, there is bruising on the skin. With the new injury, there will be onslaught of inflammatory cells and chemicals that aid in the future process of regeneration of normal tissues.
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