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Ice Baths can Help Improve an Athlete’s Performance During Olympics
medindia 8870 Posts An Australian Institute of Sport specialist says that plunging into cold water can help improve an athletes performance during the Olympics by two to three per cent. ...Read More
Posted on : Friday, January 27, 2012 5:59 PM

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Ice baths do not function as an anti-inflammatory. There is a reason why ice and cold is used in acute sports injuries- to reduce swelling. This is simply not true. Athletes are addicted to them because of the transient nerve reaction. It slows critical cellular waste processes and lactic acid removal.

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