Einstein’s Greatest Regret, Why Icing an Injury May Not Help It Heal, and Extinction Memories
Curiosity Weekly
Warner Bros. Discovery
4.6 • 935 Ratings
🗓️ 18 April 2019
⏱️ 9 minutes
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Summary
Learn about why icing an injury may not help it heal; the neurons that make old fears return; and how one of Einstein’s greatest regrets turned out to be useful after all.
In this podcast, Cody Gough and Ashley Hamer discuss the following stories from Curiosity.com to help you get smarter and learn something new in just a few minutes:
- Icing an Injury Doesn't Help It Heal — https://curiosity.im/2UrNPjW
- Scientists Discovered the Neurons that Make Old Fears Return — https://curiosity.im/2UyCLBk
- One of Einstein's Greatest Regrets Has Turned Out To Be Useful After All — https://curiosity.im/2GojM4L
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, we're here from curiosity.com to help you get smarter in just a few minutes. |
| 0:05.0 | I'm Cody Gough. |
| 0:06.0 | And I'm Ashley Hamer. |
| 0:07.0 | Today you learn about why icing an injury may not help it heal, |
| 0:10.0 | the neurons that make old fears return, |
| 0:12.0 | and how one of Einstein's greatest regrets |
| 0:14.5 | turned out to be useful after all. Let's satisfy some curiosity. If you've ever |
| 0:18.6 | used an ice pack to help heal an injury then listen up. Recent research says that icing an injury may actually do more harm than good. |
| 0:26.6 | And that's coming from the guy who popularized icing as a practice in the first place. |
| 0:30.8 | So you're saying this guy decided to finally chill out. |
| 0:34.4 | He put his old theory on ice. |
| 0:37.1 | Wow, things are about to heat up. |
| 0:40.1 | All right, well treating muscle injuries with ice is a pretty recent idea. It came |
| 0:46.2 | from a book called the Sports Medicine book that was released by Dr. Gabe Merkin in |
| 0:50.2 | 1978 and it laid out a thing called the Rice Method, which is an acronym that stands for |
| 0:55.8 | rest, ice, compression, elevation. The book was a bestseller and Rice became the gold standard of care, |
| 1:02.3 | especially for muscle injuries. |
| 1:04.8 | That's why you can buy an ice pack in basically any store these days. |
| 1:08.6 | Everyone from Little League players to Olympic athletes have used ice to recover from intense workouts. |
| 1:13.8 | The medical reason behind all this is that cooling is anti-inflammatory. |
| 1:18.3 | Cold temperatures divert blood flow from injured muscles, which sends it rushing |
| 1:22.3 | back toward the vital organs. |
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