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

BMC Complementary and Alternative Medicine

Research Article

Cesar Fernández-de-las-Peñas¹  Adelaida M Castro-Sánchez²  Alberto Vera-Cabrera³  Manuel Arroyo-Morales³  Alvaro Travé-Mesa³  Antonio I Cuesta-Vargas⁴  Dario Cruz-Terrón⁵ 

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

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

DOI  :  10.1186/1472-6882-13-180

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

来源: Springer

【 摘 要 】

BackgroundOur aim was to evaluate the recovery effects of hydrotherapy after aerobic exercise in cardiovascular, performance and perceived fatigue.MethodsA 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.ResultsThe 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.ConclusionsOur results support that hydrotherapy is an adequate strategy to facilitate cardiovascular recovers and perceived fatigue, but not strength, after spinning exercise.Trial registrationClinicalTrials.gov Identifier: NCT01765387

【 授权许可】

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