Water Immersion Recovery for Athletes: Effect on Exercise Performance and Practical Recommendations

This is a review article summarising water immersion (including cold-water immersion) recovery protocols and their effects on subsequent exercise performance, with practical recommendations for athletes; the extracted evidence contains no design, population, outcome or funding details, and the authors themselves note that findings are limited by studies using untrained participants and non-whole-body immersion. Because it is a synthesis rather than a primary comparative study, neither RoB 2 nor ROBINS-I applies. Nothing in the extraction indicates a systematic search, pre-registered protocol or formal appraisal of included studies, so it should be treated as narrative and cannot substitute for study-level evidence on this question.