1st Edition
Hypoxia Conditioning in Health, Exercise and Sport Principles, Mechanisms and Applications
While severe hypoxia has detrimental health consequences, the controlled application of hypoxia can be protective and holds great promise as performance-enhancing and therapeutic intervention. Therapeutic Use of Hypoxia: Principles, Mechanisms and Applications delivers an understanding of systemic and molecular mechanisms involved in hypoxia adaptations and examines the most promising forms of hypoxia conditioning with a view to create performance-enhancing strategies for athletes as well as an offering an examination on clinical applications for numerous pathologies.
This cutting-edge book examines how positive physiological adaptations not only acutely enhance tolerance to hypoxia but can also induce sustained health benefits. This has enabled the development and refinement of approaches utilizing hypoxia, strategies also termed “hypoxia conditioning”, to improve health and performance outcomes.
By linking research with recommendations for real-world situations, this volume will serve as an invaluable resource for students, academics, exercise science professionals and sports medicine specialists, especially those in environmental physiology and coaching subjects
1. Hypoxia: The Basics
Tadej Debevec and Gregoire P. Millet
2. Mechanisms of Intermittent Hypoxia Health Benefits
Johannes Burtscher, Oleg S. Glazachev, and Robert T. Mallet
3a. Ischemic Preconditioning: A Practical Tool for Enhancing Exercise Performance
François Billaut and Gustavo R. Mota
3b. The Voluntary Hypoventilation at Low Lung Volume (VHL) Method
Xavier Woorons
4. Historical Development of Altitude Training and Hypoxic Conditioning
Randall L. Wilber
5. Neurodegenerative Diseases
Johannes Burtscher
6. Spinal Cord Injury
Gino Panza and Fei Zhao
7. Psychiatric Diseases
Eugenia Manukhina, H. Fred Downey, Vadim E. Tseilikman, and Johannes Burtscher
8. Hypoxemia, Pulmonary Disorders, And Hypoxia Conditioning
Annalisa Cogo and Martin Burtscher
9. Hypoxia and Obesity
Samuel Verges and Bengt Kayser
10. Metabolic Disorders, i.e., Metabolic Syndrome and Type 2 Diabetes
Tobias Dünnwald and Martin Burtscher
11. Intermittent Hypoxia Conditioning for Therapy of Systemic Hypertension
H. Fred Downey, Nadezhda P. Lyamina, Svetlana V. Lyamina, and Eugenia B. Manukhina
12. Intermittent Hypoxia: Effective Systemic Modality for Cardiac Rehabilitation
Robert T Mallet, Konrad Mayer, and Lei Xi
13. Load-Compromised Individuals
Mohammed Ihsan and Olivier Girard
14. Applications from Before Birth to High Age
Johannes Burtscher, Lutz Schega, Tom Behrendt, and Tadej Debevec
15. Hypoxia Conditioning for Pre-Acclimatization Before Going To High Altitude (i.e., Hiking, Skiing, Trekking, Climbing) Martin Burtscher and Markus Tannheimer
16. Altitude/Hypoxic Training for Endurance Athletes
Grégoire P. Millet and Franck Brocherie
17. Altitude Training in Team-Sport Athletes
Franck Brocherie, Olivier Girard, and Grégoire P Millet
18. Hypoxic Training for Strength Enhancement
Brendan R. Scott
19. Hematological and Doping Issues
Antoine Raberin, Bastien Krumm, and Raphael Faiss
20. Potential Downsides of Intermittent Hypoxia – Immune Function, Inflammation, and Oxidative Stress
Marie Chambion-Diaz, Vincent Pialoux, and Sébastien Baillieul
21. Combination with Temperature Changes
Chris Esh, Sarah Carter, Bryna Chrismas, and Lee Taylor
22. Intermittent Hypoxia-Hyperoxia: Mechanisms and Clinical Application
Oleg S. Glazachev, Martin Burtscher, Lutz Schega, Tom Behrendt, and Robert T. Malle
Biography
Olivier Girard, PhD (Associate) Professor at the University of Western Australia, focuses on researching the mechanisms and adaptations that influence health and performance during physical activity in adverse environmental conditions (heat and altitude). (https://www.oliviergirard.com/)
Johannes Burtscher, PhD is a neurobiologist investigating oxygen availability and consumption in humans and animals with a focus on mitochondrial physiology in the brain and in (brain-)aging.
Martin Burtscher is a retired professor in sports science and sports medicine at the University of Innsbruck, Austria.
Grégoire Millet is Full (Ordinary) Professor in Exercise and Environmental Physiology at the University of Lausanne, Switzerland.
“The book is an outstanding resource for any teacher, student, medical doctor, coach, physiotherapist, athlete and patient willing to extend his/her knowledge in a broad range of existing hypoxic strategies to improve various pathological states and sport performance.”
Louise Deldicque, Professor in Exercise Physiology and Sport Nutrition at UCLouvain, Belgium
