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    Posted: 10 July 2007 at 3:54pm
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/6287210.stm
 
I don't know how many people here read SPIN and saw the article on recovery techniques, or who might play for clubs with players who regularly do this, but for those contemplating (or already using) ice baths, you should read the article above.


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Post Options Post Options   Quote fishcake14 Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: 10 July 2007 at 9:28pm
Well, I don't think you'd catch me in an ice-bath at any time of day! LOL

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I thought Scotland was just one huge Ice bath fishcake?LOL
 
You wouldn't catch me in one either. Hot baths all the way for me.


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Post Options Post Options   Quote fishcake14 Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: 10 July 2007 at 10:18pm
Originally posted by The Tyke

I thought Scotland was just one huge Ice bath fishcake?LOL
 
 
Yeah, it's an ice bath in summer! LOLTongue

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Post Options Post Options   Quote spin wizard Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: 10 July 2007 at 10:31pm
If the cold is bad, then the magic spray has to be bad too!! After all, the magic spray let of a coldish thing that stops the blood from clotting or whatever it does to reduce the swelling! 

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Post Options Post Options   Quote fishcake14 Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: 10 July 2007 at 10:38pm
Yeah, but that's just applied to one area of the body, an ice bath is applied to the whole body - the temperature change is gonna be pretty extreme and I don't think that's good for you.

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Post Options Post Options   Quote spin wizard Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: 10 July 2007 at 11:00pm
Well, I know the ice is good for swelling as soon as it happens but bathing in ice is totally not my sort of idea. I don't think I'll stand that kind of coldness. Maybe it's only people that experience winter can stand it. LOL
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Post Options Post Options   Quote NZ_Fast Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: 11 July 2007 at 5:43am
Well even though i have no access to an ice bath, that was an interesting article all the same.
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Post Options Post Options   Quote Sledger Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: 11 July 2007 at 6:26am
  Yes NZF , fascinating article.  The results are inconclusive though , measuring pain is subjective and an individual's perception could change from day to day. 
      Maybe taking some muscle tissue from each guinea pig and quantitatively measuring lactic acid levels is the best way to resolve the issue!
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I'm just going to nod my head at that Sledger LOL

I sometimes take cold showers because they apparently make you live longer. However, the common view is that people would just rather live shorter lives than go through cold showers. LOL
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Post Options Post Options   Quote STNOOR Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: 24 July 2007 at 7:09am
interesting article...but i won't try it. grr i always get cold and cough with a little temperature change Confused, taking an ice bath after exercise, that will kill me LOL
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Post Options Post Options   Quote Sledger Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: 24 July 2007 at 3:03pm
Originally posted by strokemaker

I sometimes take cold showers because they apparently make you live longer.....


  Don't you believe that lad !!  The first hominids never saw a hot bath and  were lucky to see 30 !
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Post Options Post Options   Quote fishcake14 Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: 24 July 2007 at 3:27pm
Originally posted by Sledger

 
  The first hominids never saw a hot bath and  were lucky to see 30 !
 
True, but then again they didn't have the incentive of cricket to make them live any longer! Wink

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Post Options Post Options   Quote Sledger Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: 26 July 2007 at 6:10am
 Don't be too sure of that Fishy , there were plenty of bats around then!
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Post Options Post Options   Quote fishcake14 Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: 26 July 2007 at 10:09am
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 Don't be too sure of that Fishy , there were plenty of bats around then!
 
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Post Options Post Options   Quote W.G. Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: 26 July 2007 at 8:15pm
I may be wrong, but don't cold baths cause atrophy of the gonads?
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Post Options Post Options   Quote spin wizard Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: 26 July 2007 at 10:02pm
If it does, I'm safe then. Awwwwwwwwww, the beauty of living in tropical conditions. Cool
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Post Options Post Options   Quote Sledger Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: 27 July 2007 at 6:00am
Originally posted by W.G.

I may be wrong, but don't cold baths cause atrophy of the gonads?


 Dunno about that WG , but I had a girlfriend many moons ago who promised to make a trophy of 'em if I didn't stop flirting with this other lass !
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Latest practice is that  the water should not be below 10 degrees C, and that it should be alternated with warm water. 

In Aus the football people are at the forefront of the current thinking - 3 minutes cold shower, 3 minutes warm shower and repeat 3 times.  The idea is to constrict the blood vessels and move the lactic acid, reduce inflammation around the joints etc.. 

Some sucess has been reported by athletes working out in the cold sea water or swimming pools the day after the strenuous exercise.
 
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Post Options Post Options   Quote blaster17 Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: 14 August 2007 at 4:13pm
lo li have had a ice bath before, and trust me its freezing!!!!

but i didn't wake up in the morning as stiff after a match i usually do, lactic
 acid shifted quite quick tho :D
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I would hate a ice bath!It would freeze me to death
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