Warming to the ice bath: Don't go cool on cold water immersion just yet!: Comment on: 1) Arthur J. Cheng. Cooling down the use of cryotherapy for post-exercise skeletal muscle recovery. Temperature. 2018; 5(2): 103-105. doi: 10.1080/23328940.2017.1413284. 2) Cheng et al. Post-exercise recovery of contractile function and endurance in humans and mice is accelerated by heating and slowed by cooling skeletal muscle. Journal of Physiology. 2017; 595(24): 7413-7426. doi: 10.1113/JP274870

Affiliations

¹ Research and Scientific Support, Aspetar Orthopedic and Sports Medicine Hospital, Doha, Qatar.
² Centre for Exercise and Sports Science Research, School of Medical Sciences, Edith Cowan University, Perth, Australia.
³ Football Exchange, Research Institute for Sport and Exercise Sciences, Liverpool John Moores University, Liverpool, UK.
⁴ School of Sport and Health Sciences, University of Central Lancashire, Preston, UK.

Mohammed Ihsan et al. Temperature (Austin). 2020.

. 2020 Feb 20;7(3):223-225.

doi: 10.1080/23328940.2020.1727085. eCollection 2020.

¹ Research and Scientific Support, Aspetar Orthopedic and Sports Medicine Hospital, Doha, Qatar.
² Centre for Exercise and Sports Science Research, School of Medical Sciences, Edith Cowan University, Perth, Australia.
³ Football Exchange, Research Institute for Sport and Exercise Sciences, Liverpool John Moores University, Liverpool, UK.
⁴ School of Sport and Health Sciences, University of Central Lancashire, Preston, UK.

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