Ice allows you to release the accumulated stress in your body after hours of surgery. Physical activity, including cardio, helps to shift attention.
As soon as you start to move actively and the body gets a physical load - the brain relaxes and can restore emotional balance.
Even if you spent 6-8 hours in the operating room, then consulted and were wildly tired during the day, when you go out on the ice you completely switch over!
Due to the nature of the work and the complex schedule, the constant readiness to go anywhere and anytime to provide assistance, my colleagues and I often have difficulties with organized vacation.
Therefore, when a hockey team of doctors was organized in the city in 2016, I got on skates for the first time to join it.
There was no goalkeeper on the team, and I took that position.