Cryotherapy chambers

[Pilchards]

On Sunday I visited a Taekwondo club for my students to train at and I got talking to the owner.

He has a Cryotheraphy chamber that he hires out for top sports stars in the region as it’s a popular option instead of ice baths.

Anyway he told me Southampton football club were one of the first clubs that used this but stopped it three years ago.

Over 85% of the top clubs in the country have them now and they are very expensive too.

Why have we stopped using them I wonder?

[Colinjb]

We bought our own?

[Pilchards]

We bought our own?

 

Thats just it we dont.

[Convict Colony]

From what I recall most people do cryo after training when in fact the benefits noted of a cold bath or cryo would be more prevalent few hours afters a session not directly after one. Also I think studies have show that in itself there are no clear trend of benefits but then again the sample size is probably too small.

[Pedro]

I know Charlie Austin when to some decompression sessions in the Gosport/Portsmouth area recently when he had his hamstring injury. My neighbour, who knows nothing about football or who he was, struck up a conversation with him, she goes every week for treatment.

[cryoman1965]

The club had one on a four week trial at the start of the year. They didn’t think it was of Benefit to use one and are sticking with the ice bath.

 

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[adrian lord]

I think the club probably sussed that it is all quackery. And expensive quackery. Quackery always expensive because it doesn’t work and it’s a con-trick perpetrated by charlatans, with the sole aim of relieving the money from those with more of it than sense. At best there’s perhaps a placebo response from such ‘treatments’.

 

If someone can explain the physiological mechanism that leads to ‘benefits’ in the striated musculature of the limbs by applying superficial chilling to the skin, then I’m prepared to change my mind...

 

It’s also impossible to do a randomized controlled double blind trial for this sort of thing so while you can never really prove it works you can’t prove it doesn’t very easily either...

[Fan The Flames]

Footballers don't like them because it make your cock shrink and tattoos run.

[Weston Super Saint]

Not sure that should be the biggest concern for a team with no balls....

[Stud mark of doom]

I was expecting this thread to be about us signing Calum’s younger brother.

[adrian lord]

Perhaps Reed and Kruger should be put in there and someone forget to get them out

 

 

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[the saint in winchester]

I was expecting this thread to be about us signing Calum’s younger brother.

 

Now that made me laugh!

[cryoman1965]

The club now have a chamber installed.

[shurlock]

Sounds like new age, hippie bôllôcks to me.

[DT]

i'm still half-expecting some cry therapy at the end of the season, so I'm in