Where to Spend Your Recovery Dollar
The recovery industry has grown considerably faster than the evidence behind it. Compression boots, percussion guns, cryotherapy chambers, contrast showers, infrared saunas, and a supplement aisle’s worth of powders — all marketed as the missing piece, most costing real money, and almost none of them delivering what the free options do. So here’s an honest ranking. Recovery methods sorted by what the evidence supports and what they cost, from best value to worst.