A survey to determine the recovery strategies that medical support staff of rugby teams use to improve recovery of the players

In an attempt to facilitate the recovery of th eplayers, the support staff associated with teams have used a variety of techniques with the goal of ensuring that the muscles of players have the best opportunity to repair before the next training session/match. Several different strategies are used by support staff. These include cryotherapy, contraxt baths, nutrional intervention, compression garments, massage, active recovery and non-steroidal anti-inflammatories. Ice/cold water immersion is a relatively new and popular recovery strategy derived from cryotherapy.

Grantor dc:publisher.institution

Division of Physiotherapy

Year dc:date.issued

2008

Author dc:creator

• van Wyk, David

Advisor dc:contributor.advisor

• Lambert, Mike

Language dc:language.iso

eng

Handle dc:identifier.uri

http://hdl.handle.net/11427/2997

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:open.uct.ac.za:11427/2997