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Again rest may the most frustrating step of the hip flexor treatment
process, but also the most important one. An injury cannot heal unless it
has the time to rebuild, if you continue to train on an injured muscle you
will surely develop a buildup of scar tissue which will most likely lead
to chronic injuries.
In this context, rest is about reducing the movement of the injured leg as
much as possible and try to take as much stress of the injured hip flexor
as you can. So immediately after the injury, alternate icing and not icing
the injured hip flexor every 20 minutes in order to reduce inflammation
and pain.
You need to continue this for 2-3 hours, after this continue icing at a
less frequent rate, an edge how often by how much swelling is still
p resent, the more swelling, the more frequent you would ice. As a
precaution never apply an extremely cold object directly to your skin,
wrap it in some sort of towel to prevent skin damage.