When to ICE 🧊 vs when to HEAT 🔥? ### Heat Therapy **Benefits:** - **Increases Blood Flow:** Promotes circulation, which can help in healing and reducing stiffness. - **Relaxes Muscles:** Helps to ease tension and reduce muscle spasms. - **Pain Relief:** Can alleviate chronic pain conditions, such as arthritis or back pain. - **Improves Flexibility:** Warms up muscles and joints, making them more pliable. **Applications:** - Ideal for chronic pain, muscle soreness, and stiffness. - Common metho

Heat?! Ice?! Which do we use?!🔥🧊 - If you wait until the end, you’ll even hear my Roomba agree with my thoughts 😂 - Patients always ask me, should I ice it or put a hot pack on…. And honestly…. It really doesn’t matter ⬇️ - I’ve had people use heat and loved it and people used cold packs and loved that too (for similar injuries) and what it really comes down to is: How does it feel for YOU?! ❤️ - Heat brings better “blood flow” but so does cold so it really just depends on what you and your b