Emily Brenchley: Ice or Heat?

Saturday 7 April 2012

Ice or Heat?

Dancers!! Are you fully aware of when to ice and when to heat an injury? I found this article it's pretty simple but explains how injuries should be treated. This is something that as professionals we should know, but do we? Do we put it into pratcice?

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Jacob Hughes17 April 2012 at 09:00
We should all know the RICE procedure, but recent evidence shows that the swelling and heat created by some injuries helps to repair the tissue. This is a big contracts to the belief that the swelling needs to be removed, so ice is applied. I feel ice is the way forward, unless it is a muscular injury, but initially, ice is vital!
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A bit about me...

I'm currently a dancer at the Benidorm Palace in Spain and I am loving every moment! The show is called Surreal which is the general theme of the show, inspired by different artists such as Man Ray, Salvador Dali, Antonio Gaudi, Luis Bunuel and Jean Miro. The venue is lovely and caters to many with dinner, drinks and dancing before the show. The stage is wonderful to dance on and we dance in many different styles including classical Spanish and Flamenco!

Prior to working here I worked for Selection on board Costa Cruises on four of their ships (including the Concordia, though luckily before it sank!) and was lucky enough to travel a lot of the world with the company and really experience life as a dancer on cruise ships.

This course is helping me to decide what could be next after performing.

Just being here on the course and talking to others in different parts of the profession has really helped me to think a lot more openly about the options that could be available to me in the future.