Icing your arm

A couple of small bags of crushed ice around elbow, and a bag of ice on shoulder for twenty minutes should provided relief in a couple of arm areas if needed, and within 2-3 hrs of over-use.

Many HS trainers use a plastic wrap to hold the ice bags in place. Be aware that some body and skin types do not tolerate if applied directly
(ie minor ice burn to skin)

An arm ice sleeve is a popular device for amateur play where training facilities are not readily available.

Regards
Bear

We find that small ziplock baggies work great for crushed ice. We wrap them in saran wrap around the shoulder and elbow and take the ice off after 10-15 minutes. It does work better, tolerence-wise if you put the ice on over a long sleeve jersey or something between the baggies and your skin. A few of our pitchers use the pro-ice but most just do the saran wrap and baggies routine.
Most of my pitchers also pop a couple advil along with the ice.

Some teams like icing, others don't. Our HS is a firm believer in icing, our summer/fall team doesn't use it at all. It seems like most things, it's what you get used to as a pitcher and what you are comfortable with. I think as you get older and the muscles get denser, the more important it becomes.

What I've seen as uniform is running either right after a start )mid-day games) or the next day (preferrably the next AM).

A 35-45 minute run the day after pitching seems to help the arm rebound better than any other action.

Our pitchers run about 10-15 foul poles right after the game, then ice for 20 minutes.

Our trainer has given us some bags that we keep in the concession stand that we fill with crushed ice from the ice machine.

She then has some type of tape/plastic that she wraps the ice bag on their arm.