In this podcast the guys take on the topic of Ischemic Pre-Conditioning. They discuss why it works and how clinicians might use it to aid their clients with their performance and rehabilitation needs. This one gets a little dense folks, but hang with us, we try to tie it up nice and neat in the end.

Here are a few of the papers that we discuss...

One of the earliest papers published:

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/3769170

Mechanisms of action:

https://academic.oup.com/cardiovascres/article/79/3/377/610360

Windows of opportunity with IPC:

https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1038/jcbfm.2014.42

Systematic Review of methods:

https://journals.humankinetics.com/view/journals/ijspp/11/1/article-p4.xml

Use for recovery from intense bouts of activity / exercise:

https://www.jsams.org/article/S1440-2440(17)30249-9/fulltext

Review paper on use in performance enhancement:

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2095254619300080?via%3Dihub

Jamie Burr's Nocebo paper:

https://journals.humankinetics.com/view/journals/ijspp/aop/article-10.1123-ijspp.2019-0290.xml