Originally Posted by Mick
I used to submerge in ice water at the end of my clamping sessions (yes I’m serious), and it didn’t result in any permanent gains… but that’s just my experience.
I been recently clamping then going into my bathmate with Ice water as it helps hold that expandand state in the cold.
I linked a study in another thread on a study on how ice was shown to be better than heat for flexibility for hamstrings. It was believe to be cause of increased vasodilation caused by what’s called “the hunting reaction “here is how it could apply to PE.
“vasodilation (or vasodilatation) refers to the widening of blood vessels.[1] It results from relaxation of smooth muscle cells within the vessel walls, in particular in the large veins, large arteries, and smaller arterioles. In essence, the process is the opposite of vasoconstriction, which is the narrowing of blood vessels. . Vasodilation works to decrease TPR and blood pressure through relaxation of smooth muscle cells in the tunica media layer of large arteries and smaller arterioles.[5]”
Relaxation of smooth muscle for those that don’t the short version is how an erection becomes possible. This why it’s important to this.
“When extrementies are exposed to cold, vasoconstriction occurs first to reduce heat loss, resulting in strong cooling . Approximately five to ten minutes after the start of the cold exposure of the hand, the blood vessels in the finger tips will suddenly vasodilate. This is probably caused by a sudden decrease in the release of neurotransmitters from the sympathetic nerves to the muscular coat of the arteriovenous anastomoses due to local cold. The CIVD increases blood flow and subsequently the temperature of the extrementies”
So theory I have is this. The vasoconstriction on the skin causes shrinkage to keep the internal temp warmer. When vasodiolation occurs the tempatures will rise internally as well. So the vasoconstriction is helping to trapping the heat , then when vasodiolation occurs this will cause even more heat and internal tempature to rise, increasing blood flow, and the relaxation of smooth muscle. With the increase of internal temp the smooth muscle, tunica, and other structures should be easier to stretch and expand with ice water pumping, and be beneficial with someone with ED, or recovery from an injury. Though I do this at the end of my workouts.
I postes a larger post about the possible potential of ice water pumping. This is actually a smaller part from a larger posting with more links to other studies about the use of ice and expansion.