Rahel Stoop's research while affiliated with Fernfachhochschule Schweiz and other places

... This novel animal study conclusively favors the use of heat-therapy on diabetic human subjects as a viable remedy to aid in curbing muscle atrophy and reinforcing overall health. Torres et al., 2004;Clijsen et al., 2022. ...

... Nevertheless, current literature on TrP pain is highly varied in its use of diagnostic criteria and no gold standard exists for its assessment. A review of diagnostic criteria of clinical trials investigating myofascial pain interventions further concluded that diagnostic criteria were heterogenous, since 23 combinations of diagnostic criteria were identified [4]. In that review, the most frequently used combination in 22% of the trials was spot tenderness, referred pain, and local twitch response, meaning that less than 25% of current clinical trials on myofascial TrP treatment have used the recommended diagnostic criteria [2,3]. ...

... Exclusion criteria included dyspareunia before childbirth and >3 years postpartum on initial presentation to the clinic, due to a possible recall bias and other probable factors contributing to the pain. The study was approved by the Clalit Health Organization Ethics Committee (COM- [18][19][20][21][22][23][24][25][26]. ...

... This method can provide a new dimension of knowledge using various datasets to investigate the issue in detail (Zalata et al., 2019). The PRISMA uses systematic methods that can identify, select, evaluate critically, extract and analyze data from relevant research (Higgins, 2011). The process is carried out systematically to obtain minimal research findings based on evidence for research reporting (PRISMA, 2015). ...

... Skin temperature, which depends on vasomotor tone and varies across the surface area, is affected by surgical procedures, central nervous system depression, environmental temperature and skin products such as alcohol-based skin preparation agents. 22 Alcohol-based skin preparation can often cool skin down and, if a temporal artery thermometer or contact-free infrared thermometer is used, may provide a lower temperature reading than tympanic. 22 This limits the choice further to oral and axillary temperature measurements. ...

... Table 5 characterizes the in vivo studies relating to thermoregulatory responses in water. In total, 23 articles were included after the removal of the duplicates and screened selection from a total of 411 articles (Craig and Dvorak, 1968;Lee et al., 1997;Wakabayashi et al., 2008;Becker et al., 2009;Kappel et al., 1997;Maeda et al., 2001;Watanabe et al., 2006;Sato et al., 2004;Sato et al., 2009;Nishimura et al., 2002;Nakamura et al., 1996;Rodrigues et al., 2020;Kojima et al., 2018;Fujishima, 1986;Allison and Reger, 1992;O'Brien et al., 2000;Stephens et al., 2014;Solianik et al., 2014;Mansfield et al., 2021;Hohenauer et al., 2020;Rivas et al., 2016;Hashiguchi et al., 2002;Tochihara et al., 1998). Ten articles came from Japan, 7 articles from USA, 2 articles from Australia, 1 article from Lithuania, 1 article from United Kingdom, 1 article from Switzerland, and 1 article from Denmark. ...

... Thus, this increased pain could also be (at least partially) explained by the increased mileage. According to several authors, the knees and groin areas are often targets of non-traumatic musculoskeletal pain by cyclists imperfectly fitted to their bicycles or by high-volume riders such as professional athletes [13,20,21,[42][43][44]. ...

... The sport of RU requires a range of fitness characteristics, such as strength, power, speed, and aerobic fitness, in order to perform well and meet the demands of the sport [5,6]. Players all possess varying levels of physical characteristics, such as anthropometric (height, body mass, skinfold) and body composition (lean mass, fat mass, bone mass) in order to achieve adequate levels of the desired aforementioned fitness qualities and to meet specific positional demands of the sport [7][8][9]. Numerous studies have shown that these fitness [5,7,10] and physical characteristics [11][12][13][14][15][16] vary greatly depending on the player's position within the team. In general, forwards have a greater body mass and strength emphasis in order to scrummage with more force, tolerate more collisions and gain and retain possession of the ball [11]. ...

... Heat works by improving circulation and relaxing muscles; while cold numbs the pain, decrease swelling, constrict blood vessels and block nerve impulses to the joint [7]. Thermal therapy is applied in practice and by patients themselves as a self-management strategy [8]. Heat increases circulation in the human body, and helps to move nutrients to the joints and muscles. ...

... Pre-cooling is considered as a practical on-field strategy for athletes to relieve the adverse effects from heat-stress-induced fatigue and enhance athletic performance, because it is easy to be implemented during the warm-up period (Hohenauer et al., 2018). According to the application of the cooling technique used, cooling strategies are categorized into internal cooling strategy (e.g., cold water ingestion, ice slurry ingestion, etc) and external cooling strategy (e.g., ice vest, ice packs, cold water immersion, etc) (Ross et al., 2013). ...