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| Title: | Beneficial effects of the whole-body cryotherapy on sport haemolysis |
| Authors: | Banfi, Giuseppe
Melegati, Gianluca
Barassi, Alessandra
Melzi d'Eril, Gianvico |
| Center, Department or Service: | University of Milan. School of Medicine
IRCCS Galeazzi
Ospedale San Paolo. Laboratorio Analisi |
| Keywords: | Haemolysis
Athletes
MSCV
Haptoglobin
Rugby |
| Knowledge Area: | Educación Física y Deportiva |
| Issue Date: | Jul-2009 |
| Publisher: | Universidad de Alicante. Grupo de Investigación en Ciencias de la Actividad Física y el Deporte |
| Citation: | BANFI, Giuseppe, et al. “Beneficial effects of the whole-body cryotherapy on sport haemolysis”. Journal of human sport and exercise [en línea]. Vol. 4, no. 2 (July 2009), ISSN 1988-5202, pp. 189-193. http://www.jhse.ua.es/index.php/jhse/article/view/59/132 [consulta: 3 julio 2009] |
| Abstract: | Background. Sport's anemia is a common risk for athletes. The principal source of an accelerated turnover of the erythrocytes in sportsmen is the intravascular hemolysis. This phenomenon is induced by mechanical breakage for impact of feet and muscular contractions, but also by osmotic changes causing membrane fragility, typically evident after exercise, when free radicals are increased. Whole-body cryotherapy (WBC) covers a wide range of therapeutic applications and consists of briefly exposing the body to extremely cold air. In sports medicine, WBC is used to improve recovery from muscle injury; however, empirical studies on its application to this area are lacking. Design and Methods. We recruited ten rugby players of the Italian National Team. In these athletes we measured hematological parameters, before including mean sphered cell volume (MSCV) by means of Coulter LH750, besides of haptoglobin, and after WBC. The subjects underwent five sessions on alternate days once daily for one week. During the study period, the training workload was the same as that of the previous weeks. Results. We observed in the athletes increase of haptoglobin and an increase of MSCV after the treament period. Conclusions. WBC reduces sports haemolysis, as judged from MSCV and haptoglobin data, supported from other haematological values, as well as the absence of mean corpuscolar volume and reticulocytes increase. The treatment is useful to prevent the physiological impairments derived from sport haemolysis. |
| URI: | http://hdl.handle.net/10045/11175 |
| ISSN: | 1988-5202 |
| DOI: | 10.4100/jhse.2009.42.11 |
| Language: | en |
| Type: | Article |
| Rights: | Facultad de Educación. Universidad de Alicante. Todos los derechos reservados |
| Peer Review: | si |
| Appears in Collections: | REV - JHSE - Vol. 4, No. 2 (July 2009)
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