Table 1.
Physical and performance characteristics of the runners.
Table 2.
Massage protocol.
Fig 1.
Standardised differences in the pre to postrec changes (± 90% confidence intervals) between active recovery (ACT), cold water immersion (CWI), massage (MAS) and passive recovery (PAS) in the countermovement jump (CMJ) performance, perceived delayed onset muscle soreness (DOMS), perceived recovery (OR) and stress (OS) and the serum concentration of creatine kinase (CK).
*75% likelihood that the true value of the standardised mean difference is greater than the smallest worthwhile change.
Fig 2.
Standardised differences in the pre to post24 changes (± 90% confidence intervals) between active recovery (ACT), cold water immersion (CWI), massage (MAS) and passive recovery (PAS) in the countermovement jump (CMJ) performance, muscle contractile characteristics [i.e. muscle belly displacement (Dm) and contraction time (Tc)], perceived delayed onset muscle soreness (DOMS), perceived recovery (OR) and stress (OS) and the serum concentrations of creatine kinase (CK), c-reactive protein (CRP), urea, free-testosterone (f-T) and insulin like growth factor 1 (IGF-1) among the recovery groups.
*75% likelihood that the true value of the standardised mean difference is greater than the smallest worthwhile change.
Table 3.
Countermovement jump performance, muscle contractile characteristics and perceived muscle soreness, recovery and stress 24 h before the half-marathon (pre), immediately after the recovery intervention (postrec) and 24 h after the half-marathon (post24).
Table 4.
Serum concentrations of creatine kinase, c-reactive protein, urea, free-testosterone and insulin-like growth factor 1 at 24 h before the half-marathon (pre), immediately after the recovery intervention (postrec) and 24 h after the half-marathon (post24).