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Is There a Framework for Post Exercise Cooling?
There's a lot of confusion, and i know you kind of believe in thinking of of having frameworks, right? So maybe just start. What cooling actually does in the event of structural damage, where the muscle fibres have had a mechanical stress put on them; we have this inflammatory cascade. And so if we cool the skin, we call the tissue, we can then probably reduce this secondary phase of the inflammatory infiltration. We also hope to as well, reduce blood flow. If you're a week anmarrialit with disgust, werein a cold bath at home, which is going to be around 20 to 22 degrees celsius - not fahrenheit but reasonably cheap. Letting
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