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Hydrotherapy as a recovery strategy after exercise: a pragmatic controlled trial

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...

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Autores principales: Cuesta-Vargas, Antonio I, Travé-Mesa, Alvaro, Vera-Cabrera, Alberto, Cruz-Terrón, Dario, Castro-Sánchez, Adelaida M, Fernández-de-las-Peñas, Cesar, Arroyo-Morales, Manuel
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2013
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3720553/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23866725
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1472-6882-13-180
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Sumario: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. TRIAL REGISTRATION: ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier: NCT01765387