Post-exercise Heart Rate Variability: Whole-body Cryotherapy vs. Contrast Water Therapy
Sautillet B, Leprêtre PM, Schmitt L, Ahmaidi S, Costalat G
International journal of sports medicine · 5 citations
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- Design
- Randomized controlled trial (classified by our AI screen)
- Studied in
- People
- Main outcome
- Health markers and function
Who paid for it
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- Funding not disclosed
Publication
- Published
- 2021-03-18 · Int J Sports Med · vol. 42 · issue 11 · pp. 979–984
- Publisher
- Thieme Medical Publishers (Germany)
- Cited
- 9 citations · more than 67% of similar papers · 0.6× the field average
- References
- 31 works
- Access
- Paywalled
- Research areas
- Heart Rate Variability and Autonomic Control · Cardiovascular and exercise physiology · Exercise and Physiological Responses
- Keywords
- Cryotherapy, Supine position, Medicine, Heart rate, Contrast (vision), Cardiology, Heart rate variability, Internal medicine, Physical therapy, Surgery, Blood pressure
- MeSH
- humans, exercise, cryotherapy, hydrotherapy, heart rate, running, young adult
5 authors
From FR
- Benoît SautilletUniversité de Picardie Jules Verne
- Pierre‐Marie LeprêtreUniversité de Picardie Jules Verne
- Laurent SchmittLaboratoire Image, Ville, Environnement
- Saïd AhmaidiUniversité de Picardie Jules Verne
- Guillaume Costalat · correspondingUniversité de Picardie Jules Verne
Abstract
High-intensity training sessions are known to alter cardiac autonomic modulation. The purpose of this study was to compare the effects of whole-body cryotherapy, contrast water therapy and passive recovery on the time course of cardiac autonomic markers following a standardized HIT session. Eleven runners completed a high intensity session followed by one of the following recovery interventions: whole-body cryotherapy, contrast water therapy or passive recovery. Changes in cardiac autonomic modulation were assessed in supine and standing positions during an active tilt test at pre-, post-14 h and post-38 h. In supine, high-frequency power increased from pre- to post-14 h following whole-body cryotherapy (1661.1±914.5 vs. 2799.0±948.4 ms2, respectively; p=0.023) and contrast water therapy (1906.1±1327.9 vs. 4174.3±2762.9 ms2, respectively; p=0.004) whereas high frequency power decreased in response to passive recovery (p=0.009). In standing, low-frequency power increased from pre-to post-38 h (1784.3 ± 953.7 vs. 3339.8±1862.7 ms2, respectively; p=0.017) leading to an increase in total power from pre- to post-38 h (1990.8 ± 1089.4 vs. 3606.1±1992.0 ms2, respectively; p=0.017). Spectral analysis revealed that contrast water therapy appears to be a more efficient recovery strategy than whole-body cryotherapy in restoring cardiac autonomic homeostasis.
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