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Design: Scoping Review

Methods: Eight databases were searched for studies published in the last 30 years. Inclusion criteria : • At least one modality of cryotherapy treatment applied simultaneous to compression or as a comparison, relevant to sports injury management; this included cryo-compressive devices and gel/ice packs with concomitant compression.

Key message: Although compression appears a useful adjunct to cooling modalities for the management of sports injury, no definitive agreement on optimum compression concurrent with cooling protocols were drawn from the studies.

• Healthy and injured participants were included.

Results:

22 studies were included.

• Inconsistent methodologies, low sample sizes and variability in outcome measures provided uncertainty over optimum protocols. • A lack of previous understanding in the protocols in the available literature for isolated cryotherapy/compression applications prevents understanding of the therapeutic benefits of combined cryo-compression.

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• No definitive agreement behind optimal cryo-compression applications were identified collectively from studies other than the consensus that compression aids the magnitude of cooling .

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