I looked at this as an undergrad and I found litttle/no evidence that it
occurred normally in humans. This was where I heard about Dr. Knight as he
did studies that showed that
""vasodilation does not occur during or following therapeutic applications
of cold. "
Canadian Athletic Therapists Association convention, June 10, 1983.
Dr. Knight replicated the studies that proposed the "Hunting reaction" and
was unable to find evidence that this occurred. One example was that the
ankle or forearm took 2 1/2 hours to return to within 1 degree of the
contralateral area following 40 minutes of submersion in a cold bath. In
only fingers was the rewarming quicker and this may be where all the
confusion has come from.
Since then Dr. Knight has done further work and has published a text/manual
on Cryotherapy published by Human Kinetics.
This surprisingly is not new to the athletic therapy/training community.
Thanks for the reply
Cheers, Ross
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Sent: January 12, 2000 3:00 AM
Subject: Re: cryotherapy
> Should we also consider the Hunting's reaction to cryotherapy...where the
> body responds to cold by shunting more blood to the affected area?
>
> Just a Thought,
> Sheri Bovard
> Los Angeles, CA
>
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