Pain comes on when nerves reattach or come back online, not at the onset when they're pinched.
The healing phase is where the most pain occurs, as your body tries to flood the nerves with blood and fluff them back up into sending signals. As they come online, you feel the stimulation of each cell "gasping for breath."
Ice slows the healing process down so that only a bit of blood can come and fluff up the nerves. This will help steadily bring cells back online and prevent scarring where any inflammation has occurred. Scarring doesn't heal, so that's why ice is the best medicine at the moment. Inflammation is the biggest cause of the scarring, because it's a flood of cells adding too much pressure to the critical point. It's a too many cooks in the kitchen situation, where in the desperation to do their job they just end up getting in the way.
A light vibration is also helpful. Avoid stretches for the moment, as those can actually reverse any healing you've already been through. You need to gently wiggle cells into the right place for them to do their work instead of yank them around and hope they land where they're supposed to. Get one of those woman pleaser vibrators and rest your wrist on the lowest setting.
Bounce between heat and cold, but not too frequently. Heat to let blood come in and cold to slow the healing down so it doesn't scar.
Pain comes on when nerves reattach or come back online, not at the onset when they're pinched.
The healing phase is where the most pain occurs, as your body tries to flood the nerves with blood and fluff them back up into sending signals. As they come online, you feel the stimulation of each cell "gasping for breath."
Ice slows the healing process down so that only a bit of blood can come and fluff up the nerves. This will help steadily bring cells back online and prevent scarring where any inflammation has occurred. Scarring doesn't heal, so that's why ice is the best medicine at the moment. Inflammation is the biggest cause of the scarring, because it's a flood of cells adding too much pressure to the critical point. It's a too many cooks in the kitchen situation, where in the desperation to do their job they just end up getting in the way.
A light vibration is also helpful. Avoid stretches for the moment, as those can actually reverse any healing you've already been through. You need to gently wiggle cells into the right place for them to do their work instead of yank them around and hope they land where they're supposed to. Get one of those woman pleaser vibrators and rest your wrist on the lowest setting.
Bounce between heat and cold, but not too frequently. Heat to let blood come in and cold to slow the healing down so it doesn't scar.