A Preliminary Examination of Cryotherapy and Secondary Injury in Skeletal Muscle
By Team Moji on Nov 11, 1999 with View Comments
A Preliminary Examination of Cryotherapy and Secondary Injury in Skeletal Muscle
The purpose of this study was to document the presence of secondary injury in skeletal muscle, to quantify it, and to determine whether it is altered by acute cryotherapy.
31(11):1516, November 1999.
MEDICINE & SCIENCE IN SPORTS & EXERCISE
MERRICK, MARK A.; RANKIN, JAMES M.; ANDRES, FRED A.; HINMAN, CHANNING L.
From the data, it can be concluded that secondary injury occurs after primary injury and that secondary injury is retarded by treatment of cryotherapy.
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