Lincoln Lake Shorties Vol.1

4 weeks till S. Africa, just did an ultrasound of my finger and all is not lost, I have a little tear in my ring-finger A2 pulley but nothing that I cant tape aggressively for the next 2 month. That said, it hurt tonight as I cut my feet on a edgy problem in the Movement cave... but then it didn't hurt when I went upstairs to train on the woody and campus board. When I come back from SA I'm PRP-ing it. I'm not sure that PRP has been used for pulley recovery in the past but I think it's the future.

Recent sports meds stuff that I'm going to make an effort once a month now to update y'all on:

(1) PRP vs steroid injections for medial or lateral epicondylitis. Go with PRP and your outcomes are, without a shade of doubt, better and longer lasting. A recent long term trial compared the two and was publish in American Journal of Sport Medicine 6/2011.

(2) In the same issue of AJSM an article looked at the healing effects of icing. Cold water bathing of leg as done using 8 and 22 degrees C. The two water temperatures both reduced blood flow to the limb to the same extent but the colder water caused more vasodilation. Thus, under the principle that more loss of blood flow to skin causes a reduction in blood flow to muscle and other injuries, colder water causes less blood flow to tendons and muscles. The article makes that point that muscle inflammation is a limiting factor in the recovery from muscle strain... so a reduction in blood flow means an increase in healing/decrease in recovery time. BUT!!! for finger injuries the opposite is true, the huge issue with finger injuries is blood flow. So, based on this study I would suggest cool but not cold water baths.

Interestingly, this study makes the point that hand circulation is different than legs because hands have more anastomoses and need to be studied independently.

Ok, now I need to get my shite together for my colorectal cancer screening talk tomorrow morning.