Different physiological responses after partial-body cryotherapy (-135°C ) and cold-water immersion (+10°C)

Hohenauer, Erich and Costello, Joseph and Stoop, Rahel and Küng, Ursula and Clarys, Peter and Clijsen, Ron (2017) Different physiological responses after partial-body cryotherapy (-135°C ) and cold-water immersion (+10°C). In: 14th International Scientific Conference on Transformation Processes in Sports Performance, March - April 2017. (Unpublished)

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Abstract

The use of cold applications is common practice in the fields of sports, medicine and physiotherapy. Although controversial, post-exercise cooling is a widely accepted recovery modality and is believed to improve various subjective and/or objective recovery characteristics. One of the most common recovery cooling procedure is cold-water immersion (CWI) where the participant is immersed up to 15 min. Relatively extreme and new forms of external cooling are the use of whole-body cryotherapy (WBC) and partial-body cryotherapy (PBC) where the participant is exposed to very low temperature for few minutes. The aim of cold therapy is to induce the primary sympathetic reaction, in order to facilitate a medical or therapeutically effect. Although research growing in this area, only few studies have directly compared the physiology after a traditional CWI and novel PBC treatment.

Item Type:	Article in conference proceedings or Presentation at a conference (Speech)
Subjects:	Physical sciences
Department/unit:	Dipartimento economia aziendale, sanità e sociale > Laboratorio di ricerca in riabilitazione
Depositing User:	Erich Hohenauer
Date Deposited:	10 Apr 2017 05:15
Last Modified:	30 Jun 2021 12:00
URI:	http://repository.supsi.ch/id/eprint/8299

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