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Intermittent Cooling During Baseball Games on Hitting and Defense Performance

NCT05068804 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 10

Last updated 2021-10-06

No results posted yet for this study

Summary

This study adopted a practical approach in intermittent cooling on forehead and neck during an intra-squad baseball game. Exit velocity of batted balls was used as an indicator for hitting performance and a baseball-specific reactive agility test to evaluate the cognitive performance in defense.

Conditions

  • Decline, Cognitive

Interventions

PROCEDURE

Cooling

The participants in the cooling trial put cold towels on their forehead and neck for 3 min in the shaded dugout during their offensive half innings when they were not scheduled to hit or on base. Each participant received the cooling intervention 3 to 4 times in each game. After each use, the towels were kept in a cooler that contained water mixed with ice and salt to keep the temperature at approximately 0℃.

OTHER

control

The participants in the control trial sat in the shaded dugout without any cooling intervention.

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • Ministry of Science and Technology, Taiwan

    collaborator OTHER_GOV

  • National Taiwan Sport University

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Chen-Kang Chang · National Taiwan University of Sport

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
BASIC_SCIENCE
Masking
NONE
Model
CROSSOVER

Eligibility

Min Age
20 Years
Max Age
23 Years
Sex
MALE
Healthy Volunteers
Yes

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2020-07-15
Primary Completion
2020-09-10
Completion
2020-09-10

Countries

  • Taiwan

Study Locations

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