I just wanted to throw in my bit of experience with ice therapy. I severely strained my quad not to long ago and when I was doing physio I would go through the usual ultrasound, massage and stretching/rehab routine followed by ice.
It was explained to me that the ice was used to effectively shrink the heated/loosened muscle back to its original size to prevent re-occuring damage that may occur from using a weakend elongated muscle. Essentially reducing the strain in the muscle to make it more difficult to strain the muscle further than the original strain.
I don't know how this fits into any theory or study and I don't know if there would have been a better approach. BUT my recovery time, from the time of the strain back to 100%, was about a month and a half. And to me the explanation I was given makes sense, it could be bullshit or it could be true, I don't know.
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