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Dr. Jordan Shallow, performance coach, chiropractor, and competitive powerlifter talks injury prevention, maximizing the value of your training, and breathing as a gateway to the autonomic nervous system.

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The Benefits of Ice Baths for Injury Prevention

I think we misappropriated the mechanism of correction with ice and like, oh, it's vasoconstriction. We don't throw the baby out with bath water. It's happening at the neurological level of driving such a sympathetic stress that your body then needs to control. So I think all you're doing is potentially masking and masking an issue. That's where the applied biomechanics comes in. Why are we applying so much forsthet issues that can't tolerate it? Like let's really try and update the software as best we can.

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