Cold water immersion settings for reducing muscle tissue temperature: a linear dose-response relationship.

Background: Although cold water immersion (CWI) is widely accepted and integrated as a recovery modality in sports practice, questions regarding its proposed working mechanisms remain. This study systematically reviews the existing literature on one the proposed mechanisms of CWI, its effect on muscle tissue temperature, and subsequently tries to identify a dose-response relationship in order to describe an optimal dose.

Evidence Acquisition: A systematic literature search (PubMed and Sport Discus) was conducted in October 2017.