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Ice or Heat? Heat or Ice? Either or? Neither Nor?

Ice or Heat? Heat or Ice? Either or? Neither Nor?

As a practicing orthopedic surgeon with over 17 years of experience, Invariably if I (Dr. Samotin) tell someone who asks this question that they should use ice, they then tell me a long story about why their relatives going back 10 generations always use heat.