Mood during time The second half of the NCAA female basketball title game in 2024 was predicted very violently.
In what will be revealed later Most monitored Women's university games of all time, South Carolina GameCocks are unbeaten are seeking to end a perfect season before Iowa and superstar Caitlin Clark. Point margin rarely leaves single digits. Players on both teams left everything on the floor.
When the Gamecocks Dawn Staley coach guided her team in the meantime, the coach had overcome the typical things that athletes needed to recover after a violent effort: water bottle, towel Bath, sports drink. However, it is also passed around the handheld devices with metal containers and copper extensions, which some score players keep at each break. These thick black cylinders have small copper tubes emanating from their tops, slim to look almost like a oversized bottle of oversized wine kept by its neck.
These are the cooling devices with the palm “called NarywhalsName the similarity of their images with the protruding ivory of Narwhal whales. They are manufactured by Apex Cool Labs, one of some companies that produce these devices, all designed to quickly cool the palms of the athletes. Hold the copper pipes starting one type Physiological procedure: When you cool the palms (or feet) of a person who is stressful when exertion, their core temperature also decreases. Their heart rate is normal and they can recover from more effective heat stress and shorter time.
The guardian of GameCocks Raven Johnson said that the entire group used Narwhals, in both games and practices. These devices are especially useful for large volume players like Johnson, who led the team during the court in all seasons and played 37 in 40 minutes possible in the game title. In April last year, helping South Carolina finally win to win to overcome an unbeaten championship season.
When you put your hand on it, it cooled you, Johnson Johnson said. This really slows my heart rate. It helps me breathe. “
Palm cooling, also known as Palmar or Vasocooling, has been discovered by Stanford University researchers more than 20 years ago. But it could not find the way to the mainstream until recently.
Senior athletes on many sports have begun to apply the palms as a training and recovery tool to fight against The effect is known Thermal stress on the body. The effect only increases more important when climate change Make hotter conditions On many sports. They are not the only people who want to relax; Both clinical research and a developed body of anecdote evidence show that this technology is beneficial in a series of stressful areas, including fire fighting, industrial work and health world. Many people's proposals for cooling believe that it was given to an even bigger explosion. I think it can go around the world, to be honest, Mr. Johnson Johnson said.
Is the hand cooling technology with the palm is a legal tool to combat heat stress in a warm world, someday can be everywhere as gatorade fans or cooling fans or cooling. ? Or is it just another fad will overcome once the death is dead?