Exposure to extremely cold temperatures triggers the body’s natural “fight or flight” reaction to keep warm. The body redirects blood flow from the extremities to all of the core organs. Reducing the circulatory flow to sore muscles or painful joints limits swelling and produces a calming effect on inflammation, essentially tricking the body into healing itself faster.

When you have a cold temperature, your body constricts blood vessels near the surface of the cold. It limits the amount of inflammatory cytokines that are actually getting to that area and causing a lot of the pain. By limiting that, we’re actually speeding up the recovery response to help your body not have to suffer through the inflammatory stages of healing and go right through to the reparative phase of rebuilding your damaged muscle fibers and tendons.