CRYOTHERAPY AND ACTIVE RECOVERY ON POST-MATCH PHYSIOLOGICAL VARIABLES ON FOOTBALL PLAYER: A SYSTEMATIC REVIEW
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https://doi.org/10.48047/28bthc15Keywords:
Football recovery, cryotherapy, active recovery, muscle soreness, blood lactate clearance, heart rate recovery, delayed-onset muscle soreness (DOMS), physiological restoration, post-match recovery.Abstract
The recovery makes a crucial role in optimizing performance, preventing injuries and keeping football to success over the years. The post-match physiological variables such as heart rate, blood lactate concentration and perceived muscle soreness in football players after cryotherapy and active recovery was studied. Though cryotherapy has seen it's routine practices due to its ability to reduce muscle pain and inflammation by being exposed to extreme cold, active recovery, which is low intensity exercise has also
proven to be widely used on the act of promoting circulation and the clearance of metabolic waste.
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