What’s The Latest Thinking About Cold Hosing?

I still typically recommend judicious ice therapy in the first two days. If you use other forms of cooling avoid applying them excessively or for prolonged periods of time. We typically recommend restricting cryotherapy to 20 to 30minute intervals at least four hours apart in the first 24 to 48 hours of an injury and then decreasing therapy to twice daily sessions for up to two weeks.
Lecturer Equine Sports Medicine
and Rehabilitation
University of Pennsylvania
New Bolton Center 
A native of Graham Washington Kara Brown VMD DACVSMR earned her veterinary degree at the University of Pennsylvania School of Veterinary Medicine in 2014. She is an Equine Sports Medicine practitioner at the University of Pennsylvania New Bolton Center in Chester County Pennsylvania. In addition she is a Diplomate of the American College of Veterinary Sports Medicine and Rehabilitation.