The effect of three different (-135°C) whole body cryotherapy exposure durations on elite rugby league players

PLoS ONE

Volumn 9, Issue 1, 2014, Pages

  Selfe, James ^a   Alexander, Jill ^a   Costello, Joseph T ^b   May, Karen ^a   Garratt, Nigel ^a   Atkins, Stephen ^a   Dillon, Stephanie ^a   Hurst, Howard ^a   Davison, Matthew ^a   Przybyla, Daria ^a   Coley, Andrew ^c   Bitcon, Mark ^c   Littler, Greg ^a   Richards, Jim ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL LANCASHIRE   (United Kingdom)

^b QUEENSLAND UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Australia)

^c Institute of Health and Biomedical Innovation Queensland University of Technology ^*  (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INTERLEUKIN 6;

ADULT; ARTICLE; ATHLETE; COLD EXPOSURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORE TEMPERATURE; CROSSOVER PROCEDURE; CRYOTHERAPY; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; RUGBY; SKIN TEMPERATURE; TEMPERATURE SENSE; TISSUE OXYGENATION; WHOLE BODY CRYOTHERAPY;

COLD TEMPERATURE; CROSS-OVER STUDIES; CRYOTHERAPY; FOOTBALL; HUMANS; INTERLEUKIN-6; MALE; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; OXYHEMOGLOBINS; SKIN TEMPERATURE; THERMOSENSING; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84898773650     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0086420     Document Type: Article

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