Has anyone heard of a place that offers cryotherapy? Thanks.

True or false @jotham , Is inflammation beneficial to recovery of muscle? I need to get on the same page on if you believe this is true or not.

It depends on how you define recovery of muscles. For most people, yes it does. If you’re wanting to build huge masses of muscles, it seems cold won’t help you achieve that as fast, no matter when you do it.

Does inflammation help heal muscle and promote muscle growth @jotham

It’s the same question. Yes, from what I’m seeing it definitely helps promote slow-twitching muscles, endurance muscles, and perhaps fast-twitching too, but that’s where the controversy lies with some of these studies.

Then why would you do something that prevents inflammation? Besides the points I raised which is for comfort and less pain. I’m not saying icing, or cold water has no place in sports. And honestly for most people, it makes no difference. But for elite athletes, icing and cold baths has become a hot …

I’m sorry, I wasn’t reading your question right. Thought you meant cold immersion, not inflammation. I imagine inflammation has a place or the body wouldn’t do it, but I think cold water does something in the body much greater so that inflammation is no longer needed. If cold water renders circul…

[image] jotham: If cold water renders circulation more efficient and increases white blood cells, then the body should address sore muscles much faster, which is why inflammation can go by the wayside as a healing technique. Inflammation is your body increasing blood, including white blood ce…

I’m not sure exactly how it works. It seems cold water expands the use of your ordinary smaller capillaries, which promotes a more youthful circulation. Vasoconstriction will increase blood pressure because of less space, which may help force it into smaller capillaries, and thus more effectively …

So instead of letting your body target exactly where inflammation needs to happen and where increase circulation of blood/WBC needs to go. Ice baths or CWI which you are almost entirely submerged in cold water is going to target to parts that need blood more efficiently? I don’t think so. And plus, …

The body knows how to target, but cold water can help the body by constricting arteries and rendering capillaries more efficient, so the body response is more efficient. If you regularly expose yourself to cold water, it isn’t painful. Problem is, most of us always shower with warm or hot water in…

Cryotherapy?

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Andrew0409 October 24, 2024, 11:21pm 40

A more recent study confirming my theory about the role of inflammation and recovery and how icing can impair recovery.