Context: Throwing is one of the most important and complex skill within the game of cricket. The integrity of the mechanoreceptors and neural pathways plays a vital role in allowing shoulder mobility. After an acute shoulder injury in sport, an athlete may return to practice or competition following a cryotherapy treatment to the injured shoulder.
Aims: To find the long term effect of cryotherapy on throwing accuracy of dominant shoulder.
Setting: The study has been carried over in SRM Medical college Hospital and Research Center kattankulathur
Study Design: Quasi experimental study
Methodology: 22 male cricketers will be selected as per the inclusion and exclusion criteria. The procedures were explained and an informed consent statement was obtained from them.
An ice bag was employed as the cryotherapy modality in this study. Treatment duration was 20 minutes, immediately after the cryotherpy, the posttest assessment was performed. Functional ability of the shoulder joint was assessed using the functional throwing performance index
Materials: Stop watch, Ice bag, Crepe bandage, Rubber playground ball.
Statistical analysis used: paired t-test was used to compare in mean values of pre-test and post-test.
Results: There was a significant change in the throwing accuracy after 20 minutes of cryotherapy application.
Conclusion: Throwing accuracy decreases immediately after twenty minutes of cryotherapy application over the shoulder. There is a gradual increase in the throwing accuracy and the significant change is found in the tenth minute after application
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