Snippit Sports Science Podcast

Snippit is made possible by listeners like you. Please help support the podcast: ► https://www.patreon.com/snippitscience    Sports Medicine June 2018, Volume 48, Issue 6, pp 1311-1328   Turning Up the Heat: An Evaluation of the Evidence for Heating to Promote Exercise Recovery, Muscle Rehabilitation and Adaptation https://doi.org/10.1007/s40279-018-0876-6 Hamish McGorm Llion A. Roberts Jeff S. Coombes Jonathan M. Peake   Abstract   Historically, heat has been used in various clinical and sports rehabilitation settings to treat soft tissue injuries. More recently, interest has emerged in using heat to pre-condition muscle against injury.   The aim of this narrative review was to collate information on different types of heat therapy, explain the physiological rationale for heat therapy, and to summarise and evaluate the effects of heat therapy before, during and after muscle injury, immobilisation and strength training.   Studies on skeletal muscle cells demonstrate that heat attenuates cellular damage an