Cold Therapy

Being that I have managed to give myself frostbite more than once in recent memory, I decided to look up how best to ice an injury. I came across this article, which basically describes the do's and don'ts of icing and reviews some "ice packs". This article gave similar, slightly more detailed advice. Although I do realize that I may have left the icepack on for a little longer than recommended, frostbite is a bit extreme. I had placed the ice pack directly on my leg... it said "safe for skin" afterall... but this may have been the problem (this article explicitly cautions against doing this, as well as describes some products for cold therapy).

With all of the "dangers" associated with ice packs (I'm just kidding about this... ice packs are fine if used correctly), I decided to look up icy-hot. And, as luck would have it, I found out I have been mis-using it too (turns out swimming and/or running in the heat and humidity with icy-hot is actually not a good idea... who would have known?!?). Guess I just need never to get hurt... but being that I almost just fell of my chair because I was sitting to close to the end, I don't suppose this is going to happen! #20