Posted on 02/13/2018 4:01:03 PM PST by Armen Hareyan
Ice is great for pain. We horse people use ice on our horses and ourselves. There are numerous ice therapy items for horses, including circulating ice cold water boots for the legs. We also use cold clay poultices on legs after performances to cool off the legs. We share a lot of these things too because most older horse people are pretty beat up.
Only Doctors get away with the ole “the operation was a success, but the patient died” thing.
Most surgeries, soaking in water is contraindicated.
I used to do the cold finish to the shower when I lived in Switzerland, with the window open in winter. The water was icy cold. It was quite a rush. Now I am scared to go there. I’ve become a sissy.
What I attribute to the cold water is that I have lost fat without losing muscle. I still weigh 233 pounds at six four but I have a flat belly. In 3 1/2 months I will turn 74. When I look at a fifteen year old picture of myself I would swear I look younger NOW. I see people everyday who are twenty years younger than I am but cannot hope to keep up with me physically.
What caused you to excerpt your own material rather than posting the whole thing?
RipSawyer,
What else do you do to maintain such impressive health?
Honestly research seems to indicate it is mostly luck. I have B negative blood type as did my father and that seems to go along with aging more slowly than those who are RH positive. My dad died a month shy of his 82nd birthday and he raised a quarter acre vegetable garden with a Merry Tiller the summer of the year he turned 81. Young people used to say they hoped they would be able to move like my dad if they lived to be 80. Not many can.
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