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Advise on Sports massage.

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    #32
    W.B. Yeats
    Registered Users Posts: 954 ✭✭✭W.B. Yeats


    Isn't there an ice chamber in a hotel in Wexford that is used for all manner of sporting injuries from hamstrings to broken wrists?
    The Irish rugby team used to do their preseason in a place called Spala in Poland specifically because it had a few of these cryo chambers and they reckoned that they could do more intense training sessions as a result


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    #33
    Running Bing
    Registered Users Posts: 3,841 ✭✭✭Running Bing


    W.B. Yeats wrote: »
    Isn't there an ice chamber in a hotel in Wexford that is used for all manner of sporting injuries from hamstrings to broken wrists?
    The Irish rugby team used to do their preseason in a place called Spala in Poland specifically because it had a few of these cryo chambers and they reckoned that they could do more intense training sessions as a result

    Dozens of elite athletes absolutely swear by them.


    Tbh it amazes me there has not been more extensive research into ice baths.

    I have searched and could'nt find anything aside from a rather dodgy study based on the subjective feeling of a sample of 40 people....surely there has to be something more solid out there?

    I always feel that if cold is an effective treatment for muscles inflammation surely ice baths must have some affect on muscles after exercise?

    I always hear "the scientific evidence doesnt back them up" but can anybody point me in the direction of a proper scientific study that disproves the effectiveness of ice baths? I would really appreciate it.


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