Ice Packs, Cold Plunges and Cryotherapy: What Actually Helps When Your Kid Rolls an Ankle
Saturday morning sport in the Eastern Suburbs has a rhythm to it. Netball at Heffron Park, nippers down at the beach, junior footy, and the mad dash between two fields because you have kids in different age groups. Then, somewhere in the middle of all that, a child goes down holding an ankle and every adult within thirty metres reaches for the esky. Ice is the reflex. It has been the reflex for about forty years. But the advice around cold and injury has shifted quite a bit, and the word “cryotherapy” now covers three fairly different things that tend…
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