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Effects of Brief and Prolonged Cold Application on Maximal Isometric Hand Grip Strength.
In Brief
A clinical study evaluating Brief Cooling, Prolonged Cold, and 1 other intervention for Muscle Strength. Completed, enrolled 114 participants across 1 site.
Detailed Summary
Cryotherapy has a wide range of clinical applications in rehabilitation, used for activities such as controlling inflammation, pain control or management of edema after an injury or surgery. In the field of cryotherapy they studied cold neuromuscular responses, where it has shown a decrease in nerve conduction velocity, which leads to a decrease in muscle strength. However it has been described in some work applications brief cold ("Quick Icing") may be opposite to those described effects, increasing the strength, the time of intervention the most important and decisive in these possible improvements or decreases factor. This effect is observed in response to a few seconds of application of cold, and would be given by an increased activity of motor neurons. Assess the influence of rapid cooling application ("Technique Quick Icing") and prolonged cooling in handgrip strength when performing a manual dynamometer test in college students.
Study Details
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Interventions
Brief Application of cold, for a period of up to 30 seconds on a body surface which seeks to promote the activation of the nervous system to produce increased excitability.
Prolonged application of cold, for at least 5 minutes or more, on a body surface that aims to reduce nervous system activation by reducing the NCV.
Placebo application through an "ice bag" empty.