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Cold-water immersion and other forms of cryotherapy: physiological changes potentially affecting recovery from high-intensity exercise

Overview of attention for article published in Extreme Physiology & Medicine, September 2013
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Title
Cold-water immersion and other forms of cryotherapy: physiological changes potentially affecting recovery from high-intensity exercise
Published in
Extreme Physiology & Medicine, September 2013
DOI 10.1186/2046-7648-2-26
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Authors

Gillian E White, Greg D Wells

Abstract

High-intensity exercise is associated with mechanical and/or metabolic stresses that lead to reduced performance capacity of skeletal muscle, soreness and inflammation. Cold-water immersion and other forms of cryotherapy are commonly used following a high-intensity bout of exercise to speed recovery. Cryotherapy in its various forms has been used in this capacity for a number of years; however, the mechanisms underlying its recovery effects post-exercise remain elusive. The fundamental change induced by cold therapy is a reduction in tissue temperature, which subsequently exerts local effects on blood flow, cell swelling and metabolism and neural conductance velocity. Systemically, cold therapy causes core temperature reduction and cardiovascular and endocrine changes. A major hindrance to defining guidelines for best practice for the use of the various forms of cryotherapy is an incongruity between mechanistic studies investigating these physiological changes induced by cold and applied studies investigating the functional effects of cold for recovery from high-intensity exercise. When possible, studies investigating the functional recovery effects of cold therapy for recovery from exercise should concomitantly measure intramuscular temperature and relevant temperature-dependent physiological changes induced by this type of recovery strategy. This review will discuss the acute physiological changes induced by various cryotherapy modalities that may affect recovery in the hours to days (<5 days) that follow high-intensity exercise.

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
United Kingdom 4 <1%
United States 3 <1%
Malaysia 2 <1%
Turkey 1 <1%
Chile 1 <1%
France 1 <1%
Switzerland 1 <1%
Norway 1 <1%
Brazil 1 <1%
Other 6 1%
Unknown 517 96%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Bachelor 133 25%
Student > Master 81 15%
Researcher 46 9%
Student > Ph. D. Student 34 6%
Other 32 6%
Other 92 17%
Unknown 120 22%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Sports and Recreations 168 31%
Medicine and Dentistry 100 19%
Nursing and Health Professions 52 10%
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 31 6%
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology 13 2%
Other 40 7%
Unknown 134 25%
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This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 150. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 04 November 2023.
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#2
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