Effects of whole body cryotherapy and cold water immersion on knee skin temperature
Costello JT, Donnelly AE, Karki A, Selfe J
International journal of sports medicine · 22 citations
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How it was studied
- Design
- Randomized controlled trial (indexed by PubMed)
- Studied in
- People
- Main outcome
- Health markers and function
Who paid for it
- Funding
- Funding not disclosed
Publication
- Published
- 2013-06-18 · Int J Sports Med · vol. 35 · issue 01 · pp. 35–40
- Publisher
- Thieme Medical Publishers (Germany)
- Cited
- 9 citations · more than 76% of similar papers · 0.9× the field average
- References
- 0 works
- Access
- Free to read
- Research areas
- Exercise and Physiological Responses · Infrared Thermography in Medicine · Thermoregulation and physiological responses
- Keywords
- Cryotherapy, Medicine, Skin temperature, Crossover study, Immersion (mathematics), Anesthesia, Rectal temperature, Surgery, Nuclear medicine, Biomedical engineering, Mathematics
- MeSH
- knee, humans, cryotherapy, analgesia, cross-over studies, reproducibility of results, immersion, skin temperature, adolescent, adult, male, young adult
4 authors
From AU, IE, FI, GB
- Joseph T. CostelloQueensland University of Technology
- Alan DonnellyUniversity of Limerick
- Anne KärkiSatakunta University of Applied Sciences
- James SelfeUniversity of Lancashire
Abstract
This study sought to (a) compare and contrast the effect of 2 commonly used cryotherapy treatments, 4 min of -110 °C whole body cryotherapy and 8 °C cold water immersion, on knee skin temperature and (b) establish whether either protocol was capable of achieving a skin temperature (<13 °C) believed to be required for analgesic purposes. After ethics committee approval and written informed consent was obtained, 10 healthy males (26.5±4.9 yr, 183.5±6.0 cm, 90.7±19.9 kg, 26.8±5.0 kg/m2, 23.0±9.3% body fat; mean±SD) participated in this randomised controlled crossover study. Skin temperature around the patellar region was assessed in both knees via non-contact, infrared thermal imaging and recorded pre-, immediately post-treatment and every 10 min thereafter for 60 min. Compared to baseline, average, minimum and maximum skin temperatures were significantly reduced (p<0.001) immediately post-treatment and at 10, 20, 30, 40, 50 and 60 min after both cooling modalities. Average and minimum skin temperatures were lower (p<0.05) immediately after whole body cryotherapy (19.0±0.9 °C) compared to cold water immersion (20.5±0.6 °C). However, from 10 to 60 min post, the average, minimum and maximum skin temperatures were lower (p<0.05) following the cold water treatment. Finally, neither protocol achieved a skin temperature believed to be required to elicit an analgesic effect.
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