Cold Water Immersion in the Recovery of Markers of Muscle Damage of 10km Street Runners

April 27, 2017 updated by: Wouber Hérickson de Brito Vieira, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Norte

Cold Water Immersion in the Recovery of Clinical, Biochemical, Functional and Neuromuscular Markers of Muscle Damage of 10km Street Runners: Clinical, Randomized and Blinded Trial

Objective: To analyze the effect of cold water immersion (CWI) on the recovery of clinical, biochemical, functional and neuromuscular markers of muscle damage in 10 km street runners.

Materials and Methods: This is a randomized, blinded trial in which 30 subjects, 10 km street runners, were randomly divided into three groups: control (gC), immersion (gI) and CWI (gCWI). The runners will be evaluated for clinical (subjective perception of exertion), biochemical (serum CK), functional (unipodal triple hop distance and shuttle test time) and neuromuscular variables by means of isokinetic variables (peak torque, total work and fatigue index). Volunteers will perform pre-assessment, immediately post-race and post-intervention, and 24-hour post-intervention. The data will be expressed by mean and standard deviation, analyzed in the statistical package SPSS 20.0. A significance level of 5% and a 95% confidence interval will be considered for all measures.

Study Overview

Status

Unknown

Conditions

Study Type

Interventional

Enrollment (Actual)

30

Phase

  • Not Applicable

Participation Criteria

Researchers look for people who fit a certain description, called eligibility criteria. Some examples of these criteria are a person's general health condition or prior treatments.

Eligibility Criteria

Ages Eligible for Study

20 years to 40 years (Adult)

Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Yes

Genders Eligible for Study

Male

Description

Inclusion Criteria:

  • Body Mass Index between 18.5 and 30 kg/m2;
  • Street runners for at least 6 months;
  • Week frequency of at least 3 times;
  • Do not present cardiopathies, muscles and neurological diseases;

Exclusion Criteria:

  • Hypersensitivity or allergies to cryotherapy;
  • Unable to complete the 10 km event on the day of the evaluation;
  • Do not complete or perform any of the study procedures for any reason (phobias, do not withstand the exposure time).

Study Plan

This section provides details of the study plan, including how the study is designed and what the study is measuring.

How is the study designed?

Design Details

  • Primary Purpose: Treatment
  • Allocation: Randomized
  • Interventional Model: Parallel Assignment
  • Masking: Single

Arms and Interventions

Participant Group / Arm
Intervention / Treatment
No Intervention: Control group
Experimental: Immersion group
They will be immersed in a barrel of 200 liters of water (without ice) at room temperature, according to local conditions of temperature and humidity (Natal county - RN). They will be immersed to the height of the iliac crests for 10 minutes.
Experimental: Cold water immersion group
They will be immersed in a barrel of 200 liters of ice water at an average temperature of 10 ° C for 10 minutes. They will be immersed to the height of the iliac crests.

What is the study measuring?

Primary Outcome Measures

Outcome Measure
Measure Description
Time Frame
Subjective perception of pain.
Time Frame: Up to 10 weeks
The subjective perception of pain will be measured by means of the visual analogic scale based on the self-report of the level of pain.
Up to 10 weeks

Collaborators and Investigators

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Study record dates

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Study Major Dates

Study Start

January 1, 2017

Primary Completion (Anticipated)

April 1, 2017

Study Completion (Anticipated)

April 1, 2017

Study Registration Dates

First Submitted

January 5, 2017

First Submitted That Met QC Criteria

March 22, 2017

First Posted (Actual)

March 29, 2017

Study Record Updates

Last Update Posted (Actual)

April 28, 2017

Last Update Submitted That Met QC Criteria

April 27, 2017

Last Verified

April 1, 2017

More Information

Terms related to this study

Other Study ID Numbers

  • 1.441.252

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