The Effect of Water Temperature during Cold-Water Immersion on Recovery from Exercise-Induced Muscle Damage
Vieira A, Siqueira AF, Ferreira-Junior JB, do Carmo J, Durigan JL, Blazevich A, Bottaro M
International journal of sports medicine · 48 citations
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
- Independent funding
- Government
- Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior
Based on 1 listed funder(s).
Publication
- Published
- 2016-08-24 · Int J Sports Med · vol. 37 · issue 12 · pp. 937–943
- Publisher
- Thieme Medical Publishers (Germany)
- Cited
- 73 citations · more than 97% of similar papers · 6.1× the field average
- Impact
- Top 10% most cited in its field
- References
- 0 works
- Access
- Paywalled
- Research areas
- Exercise and Physiological Responses · Sports injuries and prevention · Sports Performance and Training
- Keywords
- Isometric exercise, Creatine kinase, Muscle damage, Medicine, Animal science, Immersion (mathematics), Internal medicine, Chemistry, Mathematics, Biology
- MeSH
- muscle, skeletal, humans, water, creatine kinase, exercise, immersion, temperature, recovery of function, muscle contraction, time factors, adolescent, male, muscle strength, cold temperature, young adult, myalgia
7 authors
From BR, AU
- Amilton VieiraUniversidade de Brasília
- André Machado SiqueiraUniversidade de Brasília
- João B. Ferreira‐JúniorUniversidade de Brasília
- Jake D. CarmoUniversidade de Brasília
- João Luíz Quagliotti DuriganUniversidade de Brasília
- ANTHONY JOHN BLAZEVICHEdith Cowan University
Abstract
This study investigated the effects of 5 and 15°C cold-water immersion on recovery from exercise resulting in exercise-induced muscle damage. 42 college-aged men performed 5×20 drop-jumps and were randomly allocated into one of 3 groups: (1) 5°C; (2) 15°C; or (3) control. After exercise, individuals from the cold-water immersion groups had their lower limbs immerged in iced water for 20 min. Isometric knee extensor torque, countermovement jump, muscle soreness, and creatine kinase were measured before, immediately after, 24, 48, 72, 96 and 168 h post-exercise. There was no between-group difference in isometric strength recovery (p=0.73). However, countermovement jump recovered quicker in cold-water immersion groups compared to control group (p<0.05). Countermovement jump returned to baseline after 72 h in 15°C, 5°C group recovered after 96 h and control did not recovered at any time point measured. Also, creatine kinase returned to baseline at 72 h and remained stable for all remaining measurements for 15°C group, whereas remained elevated past 168 h in both 5°C and control groups. There was a trend toward lower muscle soreness (p=0.06) in 15°C group compared to control at 24 h post-exercise. The result suggests that cold-water immersion promote recovery of stretch-shortening cycle performance, but not influence the recovery of maximal contractile force. Immersion at warmer temperature may be more effective than colder temperatures promoting recovery from strenuous exercise.
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