Professional Ice Wraps

Summer camp develops ice skills

Garett Williams

Miner and News

The Lake of the Woods Development Camp is putting the summer on ice.

As the thermometer climbs outdoors, local hockey players will hole-up in the Keewatin Memorial Arena for a week in August at a pair of camps — a prospect conditioning camp, geared toward athletes in the midget, university and professional ranks, and a youth hockey school, aimed at players aged six- to 12-years-old.

The prospect camp gets underway first — August 7-11 — and focuses on nutrition, stretching and strength training both on- and off-ice.

The camp wraps-up with in-season training programs, which Brian Kozak, an assistant coach with the Quesnel Millionaires in the BCHL who is running the camps, said will give participants a leg-up in the upcoming season.

"Most players, they work out in the summer, hockey season starts and they hardly ever do any lifting or training in the winter, it's all on ice," he said. "That's when you can make big gains compared to the rest of the field, in the winter."

The conditioning camp is open to skaters 13-years-old and up.

The hockey camp, which kicks off August 8 and runs through August 12, features five head instructors, a handful of local group leaders and is divided into three categories — ages six-to-eight, nine-to-10 and 11-to-12.

Along with Kozak, coaches include Doug Hedley, a junior coach with more than two-decades experience behind the bench, Joe Martin, a former KIJHL junior B coach of the year, local goalie coach Sean Spencer, who punched a time card in the East Coast Hockey League, and local high school coach Clint Fenlon, who will work with players both on- and off-ice.

Group leaders will be made up of local players who have either worked their way through, or are still competing in, the midget ranks, including; Carson Dubchak, a former Kenora midget player currently playing for the Sault Ste. Marie Greyhounds; Brennan Dubchak, a former Thistle currently in talks with a handful of British Colombia junior clubs and Jackson Fregeau.

In addition to offering campers a chance to meet locals who carried their hockey out of town, Kozak said it also gives the older players a chance to give back to the community that opened doors ahead of them.

"The idea — and I try to pass it on to these young guys — is 'who did all this for you when you weer young? Your parents and volunteer coaches,'" said Kozak. "Those guys get paid nothing for minor hockey, so lets give back.

How And Cold Therapies To Relieve Pain

Pain relief can be attained by different methods. There are heat and cold therapies that are very effective to relieve pain and inflammation. Very frequently such methods are used right after the accidental injuries or pain that is caused by different diseases.

Such approach as hot therapy can extend blood vessels to help the blood flow supply oxygen and nutritional constituents to the area. Hot treatment can relax your muscular tissues and relieve the soreness. If you have inflexibility of muscles that cause the pain, hot treatment will help you. Hot therapy is valuable for curing acute pains, muscular pain and arthritis.

You can easily use hot therapy by different ways. You can use warm wrap, compression or hot bath. The temperature should be comfortable for your body. Do not use hot therapy methods longer then half an hour. Apart from the hot therapy, cold therapy or ice treatment can also a great decision to relieve your pain and inflammations.

Bruises and joint sprains can be also treated efficiently with ice treatment techniques. Ice therapy should be instantaneously utilized after the injury occurred. Athletes use ice therapy as a first aid when injury or sprain occurs. Nosebleed can also be stopped by ice application to the injured area.

If you have skin burn or acute trauma you need to utilize ice pack immediately. The point is you should utilize it instantly to lessen pain and swelling effectively. Cold treatment includes ice packs, ice cubes wrapped in a towel, cold baths, ice massage and so on. Cold therapy should not last for a long time. It should be employed for ten minutes for several times.

Do not employ ice straightforwardly to the skin. Apply a towel with ice cubes or wet cold towel with ice cubes to reduce pain. Ice packs should also be wrapped in a towel as well as bottles with frozen water.

Nobody is secured against getting injuries. And if one happens to have got injured, the first thing needed is to relieve the pain. For that ice therapy can be used, or even infrared heating pad if it is available.

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