3. Hot And Cold Therapy
Athletes use a combination of hot and cold therapy to deal with injuries sustained on the field, and the same strategy can work for you, even if your injury came from getting out of bed.
Take a long shower or bath to help loosen up stiff joints, or try a heating pad on swollen joints whenever you’ll need to be sitting still for a long period of time.
Cold therapy, on the other hand, is best for numbing pain and relieving inflammation. A frozen gel pack or even a bag of frozen vegetables can do wonders for that painful throbbing. Just keep each cold therapy session to 20 minutes or less and cover the area with a towel before applying ice – this will help prevent hypothermia.