Preventing Fitness Injuries
Fitness injuries are not fun and conditions such as tendonitis and bursitis can be extremely painful. Treating these fitness injuries can be complicated, because which is better, ice or heat? In both situations you should start with painkillers to help with the pain and/or swelling caused by these fitness injuries. Once you’ve taken something to help alleviate the pain you can consider the heat and ice applications to help treat your fitness injuries.
Heat is used with fitness injuries to help with circulation and even loosen the tissues surrounding the fitness injuries. Heat is often used with bursitis as it helps to loosen the tissues around the fitness injuries as well as provide some immediate relief. Fitness injuries of this sort should be treated with heat for about 20 minutes before and after activity, especially activity that aggravates the fitness injuries.
Ice is also used to treat fitness injuries. Tendonitis is often treated with ice because it helps to reduce the inflammation of the tissues in and around the injuries. Like a heat application, ice can be used in the area of the injuries before and after activity to relieve and even prevent some of the pain and inflammation associated with the fitness injuries.
The overuse of ice and heat is possible with injuries, so you’ll want to be sure to get the advice of your doctor in treating your fitness injuries. Luckily, most injuries will respond quite well to heat or ice, providing you with much needed relief. The following two articles will provide you with more information on fitness injuries.*
Dealing with Injuries
Pay Attention to Pain and
Soreness
