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<p style="font-size: 18pt; font-weight:bold; font-family:arial, 'sans-serif';"><a href="http://www.heractivelife.com/women/comment/ice-ice-baby-but-for-how-long/">Ice, Ice, Baby . . . but for how long?</a></p> <p style="font-size: 10pt; font-weight:normal; font-family:arial, 'sans-serif';">Posted July 2, 2007 at 04:15 PM by Bridget Sullivan</p> <p style="font-size: 10pt; font-weight:normal; font-family:arial, 'sans-serif'">It was 3:30 AM.&nbsp; My husband and I had just rolled into Duluth, MN from Chicago, IL so that I could compete in a half marathon, and the next think we knew, he was on the floor in pain, tightly gripping his right ankle.&nbsp; He suffers from chronically weak ankles as a result of years spent rolling them as a competitive high school and college athlete, and one mis-step today often spells trouble. Within minutes, his ankle swelled to the size of a softball, and I frantically searched through the card catalog of physical therapy treatments in my mind:&nbsp; should he ice for 20 minutes or 10 minutes?&nbsp; After years of muscle flare-ups and running injuries, I was surprised to find myself fumbling over the correct answer.&nbsp; And since I couldn’t accurately recall an answer, we opted for the more conventionally…<a href="http://www.heractivelife.com/women/comment/ice-ice-baby-but-for-how-long/">(<a href="http://www.heractivelife.com/women/comment/ice-ice-baby-but-for-how-long/">Continued...</a>)<br clear="all" /><br> <p style="font-size: 10pt; font-weight:normal; font-family:arial, 'sans-serif'"><a href="http://www.heractivelife.com/women/comment/ice-ice-baby-but-for-how-long/">Read the full article...</a> | <a href="http://www.heractivelife.com/women/comment/ice-ice-baby-but-for-how-long/">Comment on this post</a></p> <p style="font-size: 10pt; font-weight:normal; font-family:arial, 'sans-serif'">Filed under: <a href="http://www.heractivelife.com/women/archive/category/her-fitness/">her-fitness</a>, <a href="http://www.heractivelife.com/women/archive/category/sports-medicine/">sports-medicine</a>, <a href="http://www.heractivelife.com/women/archive/category/her-health/">her-health</a>, <a href="http://www.heractivelife.com/women/archive/category/injury-rehab/">injury-rehab</a>, <a href="http://www.heractivelife.com/women/archive/category/her-news/">her-news</a><br /><br /> </P>