Mood while The second half of the 2024 NCAA national basketball game for the year 2024 NCAA was expected.
In what can be detected later as the name The most viewed The women’s college game at all, the unaccounted South Carolina Gamecocks game was to close the perfect season against Iowa and the Caitlin Clark star. The result rarely left one numbers. The players in both teams left everything on the ground.
Since the GameCock coach, Dawn Staley ordered the instructions of her team during the deadline, the coaches have passed over the typical things that athletes need to recover from an intense effort: water bottles, towels and sports drinks. Nevertheless, it was passed around, which are mobile devices that include a metal container and copper accessories, which many SC players have held at each break. These thick black cylinders contain small copper tubes that come out of their peaks, pointed to look like a large size wine bottle held by its neck.
These “palm cooling” devices are called NARWHALSIt was called their visual similarity with the outstanding fangs of the whales. It is made of Apex Cool Labs, and it is one of the companies that make these types of devices, all designed to cool the sports palm quickly. Hold copper tubes with a kind of Physiological trickWhen the palm (or the soles of the foot) cools to a person who is exposed to an effort, the basic temperature also decreases. The heart rate is more quickly, and they can back away from heat stress more effectively and in less time.
Raven Johnson, the GameCock goalkeeper, says that the entire team uses Narwhas, during both games and practices. These devices are particularly useful for large -sized players such as Johnson, who led the team at the time of the court throughout the season and played 37 of 40 possible minutes in the national title match last April, which helped South Carolina ultimately withdraw to win to win the unbeatable championship season.
“When you put your hands on it, it cools you,” says Johnson. “Litely slows down the heart rate. This helped me breathe.”
Palm cooling, also known as Palmar Cooling or Vasocooling, has been discovered more than 20 years ago by Stanford University researchers. But she did not find her way to the main current until recently.
High -level athletes began through many sports to adopt palm cooling as a training and recovery tool for fighting against Known effects From the heat stress on the body – the effects that grow more important only such as climate change It makes conditions more hot Through many sports. They are not the only ones looking for a cold; Both clinical research and an increasing range of anecdotal evidence indicate that technology is useful through a wide range of heat -moving fields, including fire control, industrial work and the medical world. Many Palmar Colding supporters believe he is ready for a larger explosion. “I think it can go all over the world, frankly,” says Johnson.
Is palm cooling technique a legal tool for combating heat stress in the world of warming, which can one day be everywhere like Gatorade or cooling fans? Or is it just another innovation that will pass as soon as the noise dies?
