
Record 096 · Recovery · 2012
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MEAT Protocol
Sports medicine practice
“A RICE alternative that leads with movement instead of rest.”
MEAT argued the opposite of freeze-and-wait. Less famous than POLICE, same family of revisions.
Another named loading-first soft-tissue protocol.
- Movement-first acute care
- Exercise as treatment
- RICE alternative
Movement, exercise, analgesia, treatment.



