Does whole-body cryotherapy improve vertical jump recovery following a high-intensity exercise bout?
Vieira A, Bottaro M, Ferreira-Junior JB, Vieira C, Cleto VA, Cadore EL, Simões HG, Carmo JD, Brown LE
Open access journal of sports medicine · 17 citations
How it was studied
- Design
- Randomized controlled trial (classified by our AI screen)
- Studied in
- People
- Main outcome
- Health markers and function
Who paid for it
- Funding
- Independent funding
- Government
- Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior
- Government
- Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico
Based on 2 listed funder(s).
Publication
- Published
- 2015-02-01 · Open Access J Sports Med · vol. 6 · p. 49
- Publisher
- Dove Medical Press
- Cited
- 26 citations · more than 87% of similar papers · 2.3× the field average
- References
- 32 works
- Access
- Open access (journal) · CC-BY-NC
- Research areas
- Exercise and Physiological Responses · Sports injuries and prevention · Sports Performance and Training
- Keywords
- Vertical jump, Cryotherapy, Medicine, Concentric, Jump, Muscle power, Stretch shortening cycle, Physical therapy, Physical medicine and rehabilitation, Jumping, Mathematics, Surgery, Physics
9 authors
From BR, US
- Amilton VieiraUniversidade de Brasília
- Martim BottaroUniversidade de Brasília
- João B. Ferreira‐JúniorUniversidade de Brasília; Instituto Federal de Educação, Ciência e Tecnologia do Triângulo Mineiro; Universidade Federal do Triângulo Mineiro
- Carlos Alexandre VieiraUniversidade de Brasília
- Vitor Alonso CletoUniversidade de Brasília
- Eduardo Lusa CadoreUniversidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul
Abstract
Whole-body cryotherapy (WBC) has been used as a recovery strategy following different sports activities. Thus, the aim of the study reported here was to examine the effect of WBC on vertical jump recovery following a high-intensity exercise (HIE) bout. Twelve trained men (mean ± standard deviation age = 23.9±5.9 years) were randomly exposed to two different conditions separated by 7 days: 1) WBC (3 minutes of WBC at -110°C immediately after the HIE) and 2) control (CON; no WBC after the HIE). The HIE consisted of six sets of ten repetitions of knee extensions at 60° · s(-1) concentric and 180° · s(-1) eccentric on an isokinetic dynamometer. The vertical jump test was used to evaluate the influence of HIE on lower extremity muscular performance. The vertical jump was performed on a force platform before HIE (T1) and 30 minutes after (T2) the WBC and CON conditions. As a result of HIE, jump height, muscle power, and maximal velocity (Vmax) had significant decreases between T1 and T2, however no significance was found between the WBC and CON conditions. The results indicate that one session of WBC had no effect on vertical jump following an HIE compared with a CON condition. WBC may not improve muscle-function (dependent on stretch-shortening cycle) recovery in very short periods (ie, 30 minutes) following HIE.
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