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ArticleFrontiers in physiology2019

Whole-Body Cryotherapy: Potential to Enhance Athlete Preparation for Competition?

Emily M Partridge, Julie Cooke, Andrew McKune, David B Pyne

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Article in Frontiers in physiology, 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 15 papers.

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15citing papers in PubMed
2.5field-weighted citation impact, top 11% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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2 · The registry

The trial behind it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

15 citing papers in PubMed, 24 citations in OpenAlex.

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  2. Acute Local Cooling to the Lower Body during Recovery Does Not Improve Repeated Vertical Jump Performance.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2021
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  12. The Effects of Age and Body Fat Content on Post-Downhill Run Recovery Following Whole Body Cryotherapy.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2021
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors at 1 institution in 2 countries.

Emily M PartridgeResearch Institute for Sport and Exercise Science, University of Canberra, Bruce, ACT, Australia.
Julie CookeResearch Institute for Sport and Exercise Science, University of Canberra, Bruce, ACT, Australia.
Andrew McKuneResearch Institute for Sport and Exercise Science, University of Canberra, Bruce, ACT, Australia.
David B PyneResearch Institute for Sport and Exercise Science, University of Canberra, Bruce, ACT, Australia.
University of Canberra · AU

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The final hours of preparation before competition are important for performance. Recovery, preparation and warm up protocols are evolving continuously and include passive and active modalities often developed by "trial and error" approaches. Passive modalities, such as whole-body cryotherapy (WBC), have the potential to enhance both recovery and preparation. Whole-body cryotherapy has generally been used within a recovery setting after competition or strenuous training for athletes, and in clinical settings for the general population. However, the acute hormonal, anti-inflammatory, perceptual and psychological responses yielded by a single, or repeated, bouts of WBC indicate that this practice could enhance an athlete's competition readiness when used alongside traditional elements of active warm-ups in the hours before competition in addition to aiding recovery in the hours after. Here we summarize and evaluate the acute effects of WBC exposures on physiological, performance and perceptual responses, and examine the likelihood these responses could theoretically translate into enhanced athletic performance. The potential to enhance an athlete's performance using acute passive WBC exposure is a novel intervention that requires further investigation.

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coolingcryotherapyhormoneperformancepotentiation

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PMID31447697
PMCPMC6691163
OpenAlexW2962726364

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