I hate to say it, but Mijo has been on the edge of abusing his body this summer, in the quest to make him a stronger person for football, and with this, he has now injured himself twice. Thankfully, we took him to the doctor and so far, his injuries have only been minor and with time, he has healed. This last one was a bit scary, because knees are such a common injury in sports, they just tend to wear down and/or become injured. With bad knees, come all sorts of other problems, and our family has bad knees all over, from my dad, to myself, to Wife's brother-in-law, and even her brother, shit I almost forgot, Wife's mom has had surgery on her knees, so bad knees are all over the family.
Knowing that football really starts up in another week (summer has been weight training, no football pads, no contact), this is no time to be waiting for the healing to happen at its own pace. I have now been hearing about cryotherapy, using cold to increase the body's reaction to certain injuries. The coaches have been using dunk tanks, which they fill with ice and have the athletes sit in it for a few minutes. All I know is that Mijo really hated this, one of the times he came to get in the car after practice had finished and I could fill his body was still cold, just sitting next to him.
During the 7v7 scrimmages, I randomly talked to one of the other parents and mentioned his pulled hamstring, he then suggested I take him to i-Cryo, a small storefront over by the old Outback Steakhouse on Ben White and Lamar. I thanked him for the info, but because we always seem to be too busy and Mijo tends to be super lazy to do anything else after practice, we kept putting it off. Yesterday, with Wife being off, we went and got him registered while he was at practice. This would save us the time of him standing there while I filled out paperwork and reduce his complaining window. We then picked him up, took him to eat at Dairy Queen, because he is always starving after practice, then we headed over there. He wasn't given much time or choice, so the complaining was kept at a minimum. He went in the freeze chamber, where he stands in a small space, whole body, and he is subjected to cold for 3 minutes. There are varying temperatures from beginner to advanced pro, each getting colder, down to -220 degrees (F?). We tried the package of services, he then sat for 30 minutes and had compression therapy, which was a sleeve for his legs that filled with air and squeezed on them on and off for 30 minutes. The third therapy was localized cryo therapy, just on the knee. Afterwards, we asked him what he thought, and he said he did kind of like the full body cryotherapy most, it felt good, the compression, not so much.
I am guessing we will be bringing him here more often, as the other dad said, he was planning on bringing his boys here after football games. I like this idea, I know most Saturdays, Mijo is all bruised and moving slow when he has to wake up and go to the team meetings.
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