Ice Ice Baby

So one day after football practice, my mentor and I stayed a bit later to help ice my teammate's injuries. Basically she taught me what the ice does for injury and how to apply the ice to the correct spot. The ice helps reduce the inflammation of the injury and increase the blood flow around the injured area. The increased blood flow helps in a quicker recovery because too much swelling around the injury inhibits the healing process. One of the key things she told me about icing is that you cannot ice for more than 20 minutes. The reason for that is too much blood flow can cause even more inflammation.