Ice: Cooling muscles with ice

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Cooling muscles with ice

Description

This data set contains the results of an experiment comparing the efficacy of different forms of dry ice application in reducing the temperature of the calf muscle.

Details

The 12 subjects in this study came three times, at least four days apart, and received one of three ice treatments (cubed ice, crushed ice, or ice mixed with water). In each case, the ice was prepared in a plastic bag and applied dry to the subjects calf muscle. The temperature measurements were taken on the skin surface and inside the calf muscle (via a 4 cm long probe) every 30 seconds for 20 minutes prior to icing, for 20 minutes during icing, and for 2 hours after the ice had been removed. The temperature measurements are stored in variables that begin with b (baseline), t (treatment), or r (recovery) followed by a numerical code for the elapsed time formed by concatenating the number of minutes and seconds. For example, R1230 contains the temperatures 12 minutes and 30 seconds after the ice had been removed.

Variables include

Subject

identification number

sex

a factor with levels female male

weight

weight of subject (kg)

Height

height of subject (cm)

Skinfold

skinfold thickness

calf

calf diameter (cm)

Age

age of subject

location

a factor with levels intramuscular surface

Treatment

a factor with levels crushed cubed wet

B0

baseline temperature at time 0

b30

baseline temperature 30 seconds after start

b100

baseline temperature 1 minute after start

b1930

baseline temperature 19 minutes 30 seconds start

t0

treatment temperature at beginning of treatment

t30

treatment temperature 30 seconds after start of treatment

t100

treatment temperature 1 minute after start of treatment

t1930

treatment temperature 19 minutes 30 seconds after start of treatment

R0

recovery temperature at start of recovery

r30

recovery temperature 30 seconds after start of recovery

r100

recovery temperature 1 minute after start of recovery

r12000

recovery temperature 120 minutes after start of recovery

Source

Dykstra, J. H., Hill, H. M., Miller, M. G., Michael T. J., Cheatham, C. C., and Baker, R.J., Comparisons of cubed ice, crushed ice, and wetted ice on intramuscular and surface temperature changes, Journal of Athletic Training 44 (2009), no. 2, 136–141.

Examples

data(Ice)
gf_point(weight ~ skinfold, color = ~ sex, data = Ice)
if (require(readr) && require(tidyr)) {
  Ice2 <- Ice %>% 
  gather("key", "temp", b0:r12000) %>% 
  separate(key, c("phase", "time"), sep = 1) %>% 
  mutate(time = parse_number(time), subject = as.character(subject))  
  
  gf_line( temp ~ time, data = Ice2 %>% filter(phase == "t"), 
           color = ~ sex,  group = ~subject, alpha = 0.6) %>%
    gf_facet_grid( treatment ~ location)
}

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