For some reason I've never really gotten all that sore in my life in althetics. I've played tournaments and had the sore muscles after the fact, but never the cramping, never an injury, never intense pain.
With my back now I was told stuff about using ice and heat, along with some stuff like IB Profen, but never really did it...until now.
I was thinking that my back would take another few weeks to heal up, but I've been icing the crap out of it along with taking medicine to thin the blood. Sure enough it's helping a lot! I can ice it for 10 minutes when it really starts hurting and for awhile it'll actually go away entirely.
I love you Ice.