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

Antonio I Cuesta-Vargas, Alvaro Travé-Mesa, Alberto Vera-Cabrera, Dario Cruz-Terrón, Adelaida M Castro-Sánchez, Cesar Fernández-de-las-Peñas, Manuel Arroyo-Morales, Antonio I Cuesta-Vargas, Alvaro Travé-Mesa, Alberto Vera-Cabrera, Dario Cruz-Terrón, Adelaida M Castro-Sánchez, Cesar Fernández-de-las-Peñas, Manuel Arroyo-Morales

Abstract

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.

Figures

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Visual analogue scale-fatigue at different time moments of the study. *Significant change respect baseline value (P<0.05, Bonferroni correction).
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Figure 2
Body temperature at different moments of the study. *Significant change respect baseline value (P < 0.05, Bonferroni correction).

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