Alternative treatments for muscle injury: massage, cryotherapy, and hyperbaric oxygen

摘要: Current evidence suggests that popular alternative therapies such as massage, cryotherapy, and hyperbaric oxygen exposure currently practiced on humans have little effect recovery from minor muscle damage induced by exercise. While further research is still needed, shows clear promise for potentially being a successful adjunct treatment enhancing repair more severe crush contusion injury in humans. Cryotherapy or icing, practiced, will not likely be cooling sufficiently to any significant influence regardless of the degree injury. However, based studies animal models, it may if sufficient could achieved humans, actually delay increase scarring following damage. Conclusions about effectiveness massage influencing cannot yet made due lack experimental with model.