The Effects of Hydrotherapy on Recovery of Swimmers

The aim of this study was to determine effect of hydrotherapy interventionon blood lactate recvoery level after exhaustive anaerobic exercise in elite young swimmers. 10 young swimmers (5girl, 5 boy) whose age:±years, height:±cm, weight: ± kg, from Turkish national team joined this study. The exhaustive anaerobic exercise protocol was freestyle 100m swimming, 4 cycle with 4set in 25m pool. Blood lactate sample’s were taken before warm up (BFLactate), during first one minut eafter exercise (AFLactate) andafter 5 (5minLactate), 10(10minLactate), 15(15minLactate), 30(30minLactate) minutes from exercise.Three different recovery regime were used every other dayduring to determine effects of hydrotherapy. Regimes were; First day passive recoveryintervention, second day active recoveryintervention and last day hydrotherapy intervention. All the exercise and hydrotherapy intervention applied at 28-32°C water. One way repeated measure analyses of variance (ANOVA) were performed to analyze comparisons the blood lactate response levelbetween groups, Bonferroni Post Hoc t tests were used to identify significant intervention differences, as shown by p<0.05.There were no statistical difference between BFLactate(F=1,86,p˃0,05)and AFLactate(F=1,93,p˃0,05) response in all three intervation. This result showed that all recovery blood lactate measurement were conducted same physiological conditions. There were no difference found between groups in 5minLactate (F=1,22,p˃0,05), 10minLactate (F=2,78,p˃0,05), 15minLactate (F=2,52,p˃0,05), and 30minLactate (F=0,49,p˃0,05).