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Case report from a 19 yo football player with exertional rhabdo after an ice bath, note the conclusions (I'm not sure I agree with the conclusions, btw)
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22488291
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It is kind of moronic to make those conclusions from a single case study.
I must be missing something... there are various reasons for using an ice bath after hard training, but that wouldn't be expected to have any relation to rhabdo, would it? If your muscles are damaged and leaking myoglobin, then they are damaged and leaking myoglobin. An ice bath is not going to fix that (or cause it).
Yup. We used to use ice baths in college, but I don't recall stopping acute muscle breakdown having anything to do with it.
This is what I was thinking - it seems the authors are implying that the ice bath somehow caused or at least exacerbated the rhabdo, and that just didn't make sense to me.