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  2. Should You Use Ice or Heat for Your Back Pain? - AOL

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    Here, experts explain when to use ice, when to use heat, and when to see a doctor about your back pain if all else fails. Cold vs. heat for pain. With regards to the modalities of heat and cold, ...

  3. When to Use Heat—and When to Use Ice—for Sore ... - AOL

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  4. Heat therapy - Wikipedia

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    Heat creates higher tissue temperatures, which produces vasodilation that increases the supply of oxygen and nutrients and the elimination of carbon dioxide and metabolic waste. [12] Heat therapy is useful for muscle spasms, myalgia, fibromyalgia, contracture, bursitis. [12] Moist heat can be used on abscesses to help drain the abscess faster. [13]

  5. Using the Proper Temperature Therapy Can Heal Your Body Faster

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  6. Thoracic outlet syndrome - Wikipedia

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    Ice can be used to decrease inflammation of sore or injured muscles. Heat can also aid in relieving sore muscles by improving blood circulation to them. While the whole arm generally feels painful in TOS, some relief can be seen when ice or heat is intermittently applied to the thoracic region (collar bone, armpit, or shoulder blades).

  7. RICE (medicine) - Wikipedia

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    Ice has been used for injuries since at least the 1960s, in a case where a 12-year-old boy needed to have a limb reattached. The limb was preserved before surgery by using ice. As news of the successful operation spread, the use of ice to treat acute injuries became common. [4] The mnemonic was introduced by Dr. Gabe Mirkin in 1978. [5]

  8. Ice bath - Wikipedia

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    In sports therapy, an ice bath, or sometimes cold-water immersion, Cold plunge or cold therapy, is a training regimen usually following a period of intense exercise [1] [2] in which a substantial part of a human body is immersed in a bath of ice or ice-water for a limited duration.

  9. Should you stretch before exercise? After? Never? Here ... - AOL

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    After exercise, “light stretching is OK, as long as you don't reach a point where you're feeling pain,” Behm said. Since your muscles will be warm by that point, overdoing it makes you more ...