Former Rukh Lviv doctor Dmytro Babeliuk claims that most football clubs in Western Europe have stopped using freezing sprays during matches as they are not useful.
"You've probably noticed that the top championships have long since stopped using freezing sprays.
Science says they do more harm than good. The loss of sensation through numbness and the reduction of pain as a lifesaving informational mechanism can create a false sense of improvement, which can potentially lead to a worsening of the injury.
As for the positive side, it is insignificant - superficial numbness of the skin that creates a feeling of numbness for a while.
Most often, we used freezing for bruises, but they are often accompanied by wounds where it is forbidden to apply the spray due to the risk of burns.
And it is also advisable for the player to control the bruise on their own in order to diagnose themselves within the next couple of minutes.
The pain in simple cases will go away in the course of time, and timely self-diagnosis in the case of more complex injuries comes to the fore, reducing the risk of injury complications and ensuring the player's safety in the long term.
That's why you see fewer and fewer frosts in Europe," Babeliuk wrote on Telegram.