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

BMC Complementary and Alternative Medicine

Manuel Arroyo-Morales³  Cesar Fernández-de-las-Peñas⁴  Adelaida M Castro-Sánchez¹  Dario Cruz-Terrón²  Alberto Vera-Cabrera³  Alvaro Travé-Mesa³  Antonio I Cuesta-Vargas⁵ 

[1] Department of Physical Therapy, Universidad de Almeria, Almeria, Spain;Sport Spa Club Yo10-Granada, Granada, Spain;Department of Physical Therapy, Universidad de Granada, Granada, Spain;Department of Physical Therapy, Occupational Therapy, Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, Universidad Rey Juan Carlos, Alcorcón, Spain;School of Clinical Science, Faculty of Health Science, Queensland University Technology, Brisbane, Australia

关键词: Body temperature;    Blood pressure;    Strength;    Fatigue;    Heart rate;    Hydrotherapy;   

Others  :  1221066
DOI  :  10.1186/1472-6882-13-180

 received in 2013-01-03, accepted in 2013-07-16,  发布年份 2013

【 摘 要 】

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

【 授权许可】

   
2013 Cuesta-Vargas et al.; licensee BioMed Central Ltd.

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