I came across an article through my brother-in-law. It’s from a site called Mobilitywod.com, which is Kelly Starrett’s, DPT brainchild. The article essentially says that icing does not he reduce sweeping but actually makes it worse. When we ice tissue for a prolonged amount of time it increases the permeability of the lymphatic vessels which actually causes the release of fluid back into the interstitial tissue. The only way to clear out that fluid is activating the muscles around that area. Now of course I don’t fully understand the inflammatory response yet but I definitely think that this is against the norm, which interests me.

http://www.mobilitywod.com/2012/08/people-weve-got-to-stop-icing-we-were-wrong-sooo-wrong.html

What do you think?