Icy cold helps against pain – and that too in the long term

They came without warning, ambushed. And they roused him from his sleep. The pain that Mark Schubert (name changed) felt for the first time one night were excruciating. “It was a bad experience,” says the 35-year-old, who has been in the Immanuel Hospital in Berlin-Wannsee for ten days – because of the same pain. Schubert is a strong young man who exudes a good mood even in his sickbed. He is married, has two children. Until recently he worked in Berlin as a gardener and landscaper.

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