We’re excited to welcome Gary Reinl, Director of National Accounts and Professional Athletic Teams for Marc Pro, to this week’s podcast. Gary delves into one of the most controversial topics in sports medicine history: icing.

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Show Outline

• How Gary become involved in the realm of sports medicine in 1973
• How Gary became passionate about the science and practice of recovery
• Where the belief in icing for recovery began, and how did it became so accepted in the sports medicine community
• Where the RICE protocol (Rest, Ice, Compress, Elevate) originated
• What the research says about the use of ice for recovery and the traditional RICE method
• How Gary formulated his simple and organized system for healing damaged tissue away from the common belief in ice and the RICE protocol
• Why tissue preservation, tissue regeneration, and angiogenesis are the primary goals when promoting recovery of damaged tissue
• Why evacuating waste and clearing congestion is important for creating healthy tissue
• What physiological mechanisms electrical stimulation takes advantage of to push waste out of damaged areas via the lymphatic system
• How low intensity muscular contractions decongest damaged tissues, avoid the unnecessary killing of healthy tissue, restore circulation, and promote tissue regeneration
• What benefits e-stim has beyond the recovery of damaged tissue
• Why sports medicine professionals and the general population often confuse inflammation with degeneration
• How can individuals maximize the effectiveness of Marc Pro and other e-stim units through pad placement and overall set-up during treatment
• Where would Gary like to see the Marc Pro used more in the sports medicine world

You can follow Gary on Twitter at @TheAntiIceMan and email him at gary@marcpro.com. Be sure to check out his book, Iced!, and take advantage of the great offer on Marc Pro for podcast listeners by heading to www.MarcPro.com and entering the coupon code CRESSEY at checkout to receive 10% off on your order.

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