MEAT Protocol (2012)

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.

Official site
  • Movement-first acute care
  • Exercise as treatment
  • RICE alternative

Movement, exercise, analgesia, treatment.