RT Journal Article
T1 Hydrotherapy as a recovery strategy after exercise: a pragmatic controlled trial
A1 Cuesta-Vargas, Antonio
A1 Travé-Mesa, Álvaro
A1 Vera-Cabrera, Alberto
A1 Cruz-Terrón, Dario
A1 Castro-Sánchez, Adelaida María
A1 Fernández-de-Las-Peñas, César
A1 Arroyo Morales, Manuel
K1 Hidroterapia
AB Background: Our aim was to evaluate the recovery effects of hydrotherapy after aerobic exercise in cardiovascular, performance and perceived fatigue.Methods: A pragmatic controlled repeated measures; single-blind trial was conducted. Thirty-four recreational sportspeople visited a Sport-Centre and were assigned to a Hydrotherapy group (experimental) or rest in a bed (control) after completing a spinning session. Main outcomes measures including blood pressure, heart rate, handgrip strength, vertical jump, self-perceived fatigue, and body temperature were assessed at baseline, immediately post-exercise and post-recovery. The hypothesis of interest was the session*time interaction.Results: The analysis revealed significant session*time interactions for diastolic blood pressure (P=0.031), heart rate (P=0.041), self perceived fatigue (P=0.046), and body temperature (P=0.001); but not for vertical jump (P=0.437), handgrip (P=0.845) or systolic blood pressure (P=0.266). Post-hoc analysis revealed that hydrotherapy resulted in recovered heart rate and diastolic blood pressure similar to baseline values after the spinning session. Further, hydrotherapy resulted in decreased self-perceived fatigue after the spinning session.Conclusions: Our results support that hydrotherapy is an adequate strategy to facilitate cardiovascular recovers and perceived fatigue, but not strength, after spinning exercise.
PB BMC Springer Nature
YR 2013
FD 2013-07-18
LK https://hdl.handle.net/10630/37891
UL https://hdl.handle.net/10630/37891
LA eng
NO Cuesta-Vargas AI, Travé-Mesa A, Vera-Cabrera A, Cruz-Terrón D, Castro-Sánchez AM, Fernández-de-las-Peñas C, Arroyo-Morales M. Hydrotherapy as a recovery strategy after exercise: a pragmatic controlled trial. BMC Complement Altern Med. 2013 Jul 18;13:180. doi: 10.1186/1472-6882-13-180. PMID: 23866725; PMCID: PMC3720553.
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