If you’ve ever taken a fall and ended up with an injured wrist or ankle, then you’re well aware that cold therapy is generally considered to be the better option for healing. Yet if it’s too cold in your areas, there can be adverse effects on your health. So here is the list of 9 non-scientific ways to decide between hot and cold therapy units for your injury.

9 Non-Specific Ways –
- You pick.
- The “hot, then cold” method.
- The “cold, then hot” method.
- Your doctor says so unless you’re in a coma since you can’t feel anything anyway.
- What your religion says is true for everyone else is also true for you, even if it contradicts science or reason (and it does).
- It’s either hot or cold; no other options are allowed.
- The weather says so unless it IS the weather; you’re screwed anyway since the weather can’t be wrong. So believe whatever you want to believe (unless what you’re believing is not 100% true), and put your faith in the weather to get you through whatever storm may be on its way (even though there has never been a storm, and never will be a storm until there are no clouds in the sky).
- Whatever your dog has is good for you (unless the dog has food poisoning, and in that case, don’t eat what the dog ate or put it near your mouth).
- Whatever your pill bottle says is good for you is also true for everyone else with an injury (as long as what’s inside the bottle isn’t expired and hasn’t been tampered with by someone who wanted to make sure their name was on the bottle).

Conclusion
These major aspects can help you know when you should utilize hot or cold therapy for an injury.






