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Is the ice bath finally melting? Cold water immersion is no greater than active recovery upon local and systemic inflammatory cellular stress in humans
Author(s) -
Allan R.,
Mawhinney C.
Publication year - 2017
Publication title -
the journal of physiology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.802
H-Index - 240
eISSN - 1469-7793
pISSN - 0022-3751
DOI - 10.1113/jp273796
Subject(s) - immersion (mathematics) , chemistry , systemic circulation , systemic inflammation , biophysics , inflammation , medicine , biology , mathematics , pure mathematics
Over the past decade, signicant research has focused on optimising the recovery of elite athletes. The premise behindsuch a theory is that suboptimal recovery often leads to fatigue, reducing the quality of subsequent training sessions and/or competitive performances, whilst potentially hindering adaptive processes. There is now a plethora of research focusingon the impact of one such recovery strategy, cold-water immersion (CWI), and the benets it may provide post-exercise.