Podcast 24: Rick Cost, director de alto rendimiento de la federación americana de fútbol (USA).

En el siguiente episodio de “Thermography: Science, Health and Sport” (en Inglés) introducimos a Rick Cost, director de alto rendimiento de la federación americana de fútbol, Estados Unidos (USA) (aunque él es nativo de Holanda).

Rick Cost, es un experto en el rendimiento de los jugadores de fútbol que trabajaba en Europa (Feyenoord Rotterdam) y ahora es el Director de Alto Rendimiento de la federación americana de fútbol (U.S. Soccer Federation). La selección estadounidense ha utilizado ThermoHuman durante el Mundial de Qatar, sobre todo, orientando los resultados de termografía para la recuperación con estrategias de frío y calor en la recuperación.

Rick Cost ve en la termografía una herramienta con muchas ventajas por su facilidad de uso y por su implementación en el día a día con los deportistas. Él ve la implementación de esta tecnología como un método confiable para optimizar la recuperación en el calendario competitivo del fútbol.

Para él se trata de patrones térmicos infrarrojos para controlar el proceso de recuperación en el fútbol.

TRANSCRIPTION

Ismael Fernandez (CEO ThermoHuman): «Do you remember any case where a thermography was especially interesting to help in detecting something or helping some player really getting better in the recovery process?»

Rick Cost: «Yeah, yeah, definitely I think mostly based on on the daily screens. So, on the daily screen the player would always say I feel, you know, I woke up fresh or didn’t wake up, wake up fresh, etc. We saw a lot of players who wanted to do and I actually didn’t expect it to like late night cryos. Although in the beginning we use that as a contraindication, but because thermography gave her home you know we did a training session, and we would for instance exceed high intensity distance and soccer actions that that session, and you would see that one particular football would flare up. And then we said like, let’s just try it and I took a little bit of a risk there by bringing them into a cryo chamber late, like a late night, and they in the morning said like that they at least had the feeling that the cryo made it easier for them to fall asleep but they woke up fresher or more fresh. So if it is due to they had a better meal or they had like you know or the thermography actually was actually like the right, they give the right advice to say, oh we need to go into the cooling mechanism.»