Postgame recovery

[wisref2]

Originally Posted by Stripe

When I had plantar fascitis(basically bones spurs and damage to the tendon running along the bottom of your foot) that's what my doctor prescribed. I had to stick my foot up to the ankle in ice water, put a belt around the ball of my foot, and pull back to stretch the tendons. One rep every 10 seconds for 20 minutes. The treatment hurt just as bad as the injury!

Hey Stripe - try this. Fill a plastic soda bottle with water and put it in the freezer (fill it almost to the to be leave room for the ice to expand). Then just roll your foot back and forth over it. It both ices the area and gently stretches those muscles and tendons. Then, before a game, put a soda bottle filled with water in the microwave for two minutes or so and roll your foot back and forth to stretch out the muscles and tendons - then use the iced bottle right after the game.

[Stripe]

Thanks wisref2. I did something similar to that for my shin splints(obviously I'm a mess from the knees down. I guess thery're next.) I took a dixie cup, filled it with water and froze it. Then you just pull away the paper a little at a time and rub it up and down your shins with moderate pressure.
Still #!%^#@! hurts though. Gonna try that soda bottle thing.

[Warrenkicker]

In college I also used the ice baths after the hot practices especially during two-a-days. They were just large gray plastic trash cans full of ice water. After showering, you would get in as deep as you could take for as long as you could take. Most of us would go down to a certain point that I think everyone can relate to and stay in for about a minute or two. One guy would go in to mid-stomach and just sit there smiling. But then again he did later play in the NFL for about 6 years. It does make your legs feel better by getting that heat out of there.