Studie 2012: "Cryotherapy in athletes:
a performance-enhancing tool?"
Whole-body cryostimulation (WBC) does not decrease the internal body temperature but only reduces the skin temperature, and it does not lead to hypothermia [4]. Cryostimulation is utilized as a physical intervention in the treatment of injury and exercise recovery, and it is tolerated well by athletes [5,6]. In a sports context, WBC is applied in the form of repetitive whole-body cryostimulation (WBC) during training programs to accelerate post-exercise recovery [1,[7][8][9][10][11][12][13], reduce metabolism, improve exercise performance [11,14], reduce the perception of pain and fatigue [1,12], attenuate exercise-induced muscle damage and inflammation [8,13], enhance the regenerative response [15,16] and improve the magnitude of performance supercompensation [17]. ...
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... In the context of recovery after physical exercise, WBC exposure and the resulting decrease in muscle and skin temperature may decrease muscle enzyme activities, metabolism, inflammation, and secondary muscle damage after exercise (delayed onset muscle soreness (DOMS)), which can promote recovery [5,20,21]. This form of temperature treatment can be used at any stage of the training process, including during the preparatory phase [22], during the recovery period [13], during simulated 7-day tapering [17] and after the competitive season [23,24], especially in scenarios in which the implementation of recovery strategies can accelerate a return to optimal performance [6]. ...
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