Welcome to a new paradigm in injury treatment. For decades, the standard advice for acute injury management has been the RICE protocol: Rest, Ice, Compression, and Elevation. But evidence continues to mount that this approach may actually delay healing rather than promote it. That’s why I introduced a new approach: METH—Movement, Elevation, Traction, and Heat….
The modern approach of “rest it and ice it” is not the best way to heal an injury. We’ve known for ages that movement, along with heat, increases circulation and promotes healing. Check out this excerpt from The Wonderful World Within You by Dr. Roger J. Williams, originally published in 1977: We human beings are…