I as a parent always thought that after you pitched you used ice. Well when my oldest son was at Waubonsie C.C. they would do what is called Milking the arm. The player wold put his
hand on the trainers sholder, then the trainer would take some icey hot or some thing like it and start at the players wrist, squeezeing with both hands and pushing up towards the players
sholder in a massageing motion forceing the old
blood out and letting the new blood in. Basically flushing the lactic acids out of the arm. Lactic acids build up in the muscles, and like any other acid it will eat away at the muscle. So the trainer said you want to increase
blood flow with heat and massage, not decrease
blood flow by ice. He said ice slows blood flow
and allows the lactic acids to sit and build up in the arm,Thats Bad. Running is how you increase blood flow also, SO RUN after you get your arm "Milked" by a trainer or teammate.
It sounds good to me, How about you. By the way my son never had any arm problems while at
Waubonsie C.C..
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