So reassuring to hear this as its EXACTLY my advice to my patients 🥳

Thank you ..

as you mention Khalid, it's a reflex, and the general population will never stop icing no matter what we recommend lol. But I love that you are sharing the PEACE and LOVE principles, which I do too. I think it's soothing for patients, and as long as it's not THE only thing they do, I think it's fine. Love from CANADA

I had a wrist/thumb area injury after from tennis serving, every night it tightened up and gave me jolts of pain if I moved my thumb (felt like at the sheath) and nothing worked for 4 months with no sports activity and including some wrist flexion and pronation exercises until I got a cortisone injection where there was fluid and less than 1 day it was better.

I am kinda split on this. I know my evidence is anecdotal but I have found that for my own injuries ice has been a vital part of comfort in recovery. In a perfect world peace & love does sound great and is probably the optimal recovery pathway, however if you have an injury on Sunday and need to work on Monday, ice allows that intermediate functionality (the proverbial weekend warrior). From an holistic approach, that return to work (while avoiding high load situations) is less damaging than missing a day of pay, particularly in the current cost of living crisis. I have found that ice is an incredibly important part of recovery from and prevention of DOMS, would you be able to do a video on that topic? Basically I find it almost impossible to walk down stairs the day after a sporting activity, and say if the match was a Sunday it can be Thursday before I am 100% pain free. However if I ice my quads within 30 mins of that activity ending, I'm able to skip downstairs the next day with no issue. I'm aware that DOMS and structural damage are different, however does the potential placebo effect of ice actually contribute to the healing process?

Khalid, have you ever dealt with patients with a entrapment of the suprapatellar plica?

what about tendon areas that don't seem to get much blood flow. i've had injuries that last for months with no improvement after stopping the activity.

Disrupting re-vascularisation and inflammatory processes by how much ? If eventually like taking extra few days , the healing will still happen … I think temporarily taking the pain away with ice or even using anti- inflammatory and allow better movement is not a bad move

Why A? Why does this not recommend Anti Inflammatories?

Question - Why do we want to avoid decreasing swelling with use of ice but still want to compress and elevate?

Now waiting for my uni proffesors to stop teaching and presching same methods for last 50 years😅