ReviewExercise and sport sciences reviews2020
Local Heat Therapy to Accelerate Recovery After Exercise-Induced Muscle Damage.
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- Effect of pneumatic and cold compression on muscle performance and recovery in combat sports athletes.Scientific reports · 2025Trial
- Acute effects of cold, heat and contrast pressure therapy on forearm muscles regeneration in combat sports athletes: a randomized clinical trial.Scientific reports · 2024Trial
- Heat Therapy: Targeting Health, Disease, and Disability.Comprehensive Physiology · 2026Review
- Isolated and Combined Effects of Cold, Heat and Hypoxia Therapies on Muscle Recovery Following Exercise-Induced Muscle Damage.Sports medicine (Auckland, N.Z.) · 2025Review
- Energy metabolism in different skeletal muscles and muscle fibers: implications for injury and dietary supplementation.Pflugers Archiv : European journal of physiology · 2025Review
- Most Common Injuries in Resistance Training: Mechanisms, Therapeutic Interventions, and Preventive Strategies.Cureus · 2025Review
- Mechanisms and Efficacy of Contrast Therapy for Musculoskeletal Painful Disease: A Scoping Review.Journal of clinical medicine · 2025Review
- Influence of contrast compression therapy and water immersion contrast therapy on biomechanical parameters of the forearm muscles in martial arts athletes.Frontiers in physiology · 2025Article
- Immediate Effect of Compression Contrast Therapy on Quadriceps Femoris Muscles' Regeneration in MMA Fighters.Journal of clinical medicine · 2024Article
- The Effects of Combined Contrast Heat Cold Pressure Therapy on Post-Exercise Muscle Recovery in MMA Fighters: A Randomized Controlled Trial.Journal of human kinetics · 2024Article
- Current Indications and Future Direction in Heat Therapy for Musculoskeletal Pain: A Narrative Review.Muscles (Basel, Switzerland) · 2024Review
- Optimal Duration of Cold and Heat Compression for Forearm Muscle Biomechanics in Mixed Martial Arts Athletes: A Comparative Study.Medical science monitor : international medical journal of experimental and clinical research · 2024Article
- Cyclooxygenase inhibition does not blunt thermal hyperemia in skeletal muscle of humans.Journal of applied physiology (Bethesda, Md. : 1985) · 2024Article
- Acute Recovery after a Fatigue Protocol Using a Recovery Sports Legging: An Experimental Study.Sensors (Basel, Switzerland) · 2023Article
- The Effects on Knee Swelling, Range of Motion and Pain using a Commercially Available Hot/Cold Contrast Device in a Rehabilitation and Sports Medicine Setting.International journal of sports physical therapy · 2022Article
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Abstract
The prolonged impairment in muscle strength, power, and fatigue resistance after eccentric exercise has been ascribed to a plethora of mechanisms, including delayed muscle refueling and microvascular and mitochondrial dysfunction. This review explores the hypothesis that local heat therapy hastens functional recovery after strenuous eccentric exercise by facilitating glycogen resynthesis, reversing vascular derangements, augmenting mitochondrial function, and stimulating muscle protein synthesis.
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