Michael G. Dolan, MA, ATC, CSCS Athletic Training and Sports Health Care. 2020;12(4):191https://doi.org/10.3928/19425864-20200609-01 Posted July 1, 2020 Abstract Click here to read the article. I would like to comment on the editorial published in the May/June 2020 issue entitled “21st Century Attacks on Cryotherapy in Sports Health Care—Clinician Beware,” written by Long and Jutte.1 I have an interest […]
Gary Reinl Athletic Training and Sports Health Care. 2020;12(4):188-189https://doi.org/10.3928/19425864-20200610-01 Posted July 1, 2020 Abstract Click here to read the article. I am writing this letter in response to a recent guest editorial that was featured in Athletic Training & Sports Health Care entitled: “21st Century Attacks on Cryotherapy in Sports Health Care—Clinician Beware.”1 The overall premise of the guest editorial […]
August 11, 2015 If the thought of a post workout ice bath is enough to make you shiver, new research from QUT and The University of Queensland (UQ) will warm your heart. The comprehensive study found cold water immersion after strength training hindered muscle adaptation — pouring cold water on the long-held theory that an […]
Medscape.com Laird Harrison April 09, 2014 Story Source The Wrong Therapy for Sprains and Strains? Every now and then, a patient hobbles into the physical therapy offices of Eric Robertson, PT, DPT, still wearing a walking boot weeks after spraining an ankle. “We kind of cringe,” says Robertson, a spokesperson for the American Physical Therapy […]
Miriam E. Tucker October 11, 2013 WASHINGTON, DC — Cryotherapy involving the simplest of pain remedies can ease symptoms after major abdominal surgery, according to a new randomized controlled trial. “Ice packs can reduce postoperative pain and narcotic use. They are an easy, benign, and cost-effective addition to postoperative pain management,” said Ammara Abbasi, MD, a general […]
Serap Ucler, Ozlem Coskun, Levent E. Inan, and Yonca Kanatli Evidence-Based Complementary and Alternative Medicine Volume 3 (2006), Issue 4, Pages 489-493 http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/ecam/nel035 Abstract Some patients with headache report that they have frequently used physical therapies such as application of cold to relieve their headache. There are only a few reported studies related to cold […]