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Fundamentals or Icing on Top of the Cake? A Narrative Review of Recovery Strategies and Devices for Athletes
The sport and athletic performance industry has seen a plethora of new recovery devices and technologies over recent years, and it has become somewhat difficult for athletes, coaches, and practitioners to navigate the efficacy of such devices or whether they are even required at all. With the increa...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10674277/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37999430 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/sports11110213 |
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description | The sport and athletic performance industry has seen a plethora of new recovery devices and technologies over recent years, and it has become somewhat difficult for athletes, coaches, and practitioners to navigate the efficacy of such devices or whether they are even required at all. With the increase in recovery devices and tools, it has also become commonplace for athletes to overlook more traditional, well-established recovery strategies. In this narrative review, we discuss recovery strategies in relation to the hierarchy of scientific evidence, classifying them based on the strength of the evidence, ranging from meta-analyses through to case studies and reports. We report that foam rolling, compression garments, cryotherapy, photobiomodulation, hydrotherapy, and active recovery have a high level of positive evidence for improved recovery outcomes, while sauna, recovery boots/sleeves, occlusion cuffs, and massage guns currently have a lower level of evidence and mixed results for their efficacy. Finally, we provide guidance for practitioners when deciding on recovery strategies to use with athletes during different phases of the season. |
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spelling | pubmed-106742772023-11-03 Fundamentals or Icing on Top of the Cake? A Narrative Review of Recovery Strategies and Devices for Athletes Driller, Matthew Leabeater, Alana Sports (Basel) Review The sport and athletic performance industry has seen a plethora of new recovery devices and technologies over recent years, and it has become somewhat difficult for athletes, coaches, and practitioners to navigate the efficacy of such devices or whether they are even required at all. With the increase in recovery devices and tools, it has also become commonplace for athletes to overlook more traditional, well-established recovery strategies. In this narrative review, we discuss recovery strategies in relation to the hierarchy of scientific evidence, classifying them based on the strength of the evidence, ranging from meta-analyses through to case studies and reports. We report that foam rolling, compression garments, cryotherapy, photobiomodulation, hydrotherapy, and active recovery have a high level of positive evidence for improved recovery outcomes, while sauna, recovery boots/sleeves, occlusion cuffs, and massage guns currently have a lower level of evidence and mixed results for their efficacy. Finally, we provide guidance for practitioners when deciding on recovery strategies to use with athletes during different phases of the season. MDPI 2023-11-03 /pmc/articles/PMC10674277/ /pubmed/37999430 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/sports11110213 Text en © 2023 by the authors. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). |
spellingShingle | Review Driller, Matthew Leabeater, Alana Fundamentals or Icing on Top of the Cake? A Narrative Review of Recovery Strategies and Devices for Athletes |
title | Fundamentals or Icing on Top of the Cake? A Narrative Review of Recovery Strategies and Devices for Athletes |
title_full | Fundamentals or Icing on Top of the Cake? A Narrative Review of Recovery Strategies and Devices for Athletes |
title_fullStr | Fundamentals or Icing on Top of the Cake? A Narrative Review of Recovery Strategies and Devices for Athletes |
title_full_unstemmed | Fundamentals or Icing on Top of the Cake? A Narrative Review of Recovery Strategies and Devices for Athletes |
title_short | Fundamentals or Icing on Top of the Cake? A Narrative Review of Recovery Strategies and Devices for Athletes |
title_sort | fundamentals or icing on top of the cake? a narrative review of recovery strategies and devices for athletes |
topic | Review |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10674277/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37999430 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/sports11110213 |
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