The evidence is convergent. Multiple independent sources reach the same conclusion, the underlying mechanism is well-characterized, and even the field's most cautious voices treat it as worth doing.
if I was in pain and I was about to exercise a a quick two or three minute intervention working on let's call it desensitization of the tissues let's let's be mechanism agnostic for a second and say that's a really low level to entry safe highly effective way for you to suddenly feel better so we create a window of opportunity to move that's really cool I love that
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The research is clear though that can help with range of motion. It can help with blood flow. It can help desensitize painful things and pretty soon if we haven't defined our terms, it can be a little sticky.
We find that when people get enough of a dose of something, we tend to say, "Hey, let's limit this to 5 minutes per muscle system so you don't overdo it, but we can actually get in there long enough that we can make some change.