Pels get a Cryotherapy Chamber

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Have you introduced any new techniques to recover?

“Basically cold post-practice and pre-practice has been good. There’s ways to do it. If you have ever just sat in a cold tub it is real beneficial but it can kind of take your breath away. So another technology is a cryotherapy chamber which is new which does it in a shorter period of time. Three minutes in there and that is not necessarily easy but I would say it is easier than sitting in a punch bowl. That would be new, an inflatable pressurized wraps that players are using. The key during camp and even during the season I think is just utilizing the technology to get the blood back in their legs, that can be from transitioning from cold to hot, that can be in the Cryo and that can be in the pressure wraps. All of those things we are trying to take advantage of especially during these training camp practices.”

Do you want all of the players to use the Cryotherapy Chamber?

“Absolutely, I was in it this morning. It is cold. You have mittens on, socks so you want to protect your fingers and your toes. You have to be dry and it is kind of a stand up machine that is just around you. Rather than water it is a freezing air mixture that you will be in for three minutes. It is a long three minutes. But none the less coming out of it I know how it feels. I know how these guys feel about it. It is something that we spent some time on in the offseason, Mickey (Loomis) and I. We will have that available, one for our team, one for the Pelicans. All of these things are just to help with recovery.”

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