NCT04902924

Cold and Warm Water for Performance Recovery

A Randomized Controlled Trial to Evaluate the Effectiveness of Repeated Cold- and Warm Water Immersion on Performance Recovery

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 30 (actual)
• Sponsor: University of Applied Sciences and Arts of Southern Switzerland · Academic / Other
• Sex: Female
• Age: 18 Years – 35 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Accepted

Summary

The overall aim of this study is, to evaluate the effectiveness of repeated cold- and warm water immersion on performance recovery after muscle damage.

Detailed description

Participants perform a muscle-damage protocol, which comprises 5x20 drop jumps. After the exercise protocol is finished, the participants will undergo one of three recovery interventions. Cold-water immersion, Warm-water immersion or the control-intervention. During the exercise protocol and the recovery intervention following parameters will be assessed: Blood oxygenation, Muscle oxygenation, heart-rate, skin temperature and core temperature. Then, performance recovery will be assessed during the following 72 hrs (in a 24 hrs interval). At each time-point, following measurements will be conducted: vertical-jump performance, maximum voluntary isometric contraction of the m.quadriceps femoris muscle, muscle swelling and delayed-onset of muscle soreness.

Conditions

• Healthy

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
BEHAVIORAL	repeated cold water therapy	This information can be found the description of the experimental arm.
BEHAVIORAL	repeated warm water therapy	This information can be found the description of the experimental arm.
OTHER	control	This information can be found the description of the experimental arm.

Timeline

• Start date: 2021-10-01
• Primary completion: 2022-04-30
• Completion: 2022-05-01
• First posted: 2021-05-26
• Last updated: 2025-10-07
• Results posted: 2025-09-24

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Switzerland