Mark A. Merrick
Ohio State University
31 Papers
267 Citations
Mark A. Merrick is an academic researcher from Ohio State University. The author has contributed to research in topics: Medicine & Cryotherapy. The author has an hindex of 20, co-authored 31 publications. Previous affiliations of Mark A. Merrick include American Physical Therapy Association & Indiana State University.
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Papers
•Journal Article
The dual roles of neutrophils and macrophages in inflammation: a critical balance between tissue damage and repair.
TL;DR: The duplicitous roles of neutrophils and macrophages in both the inflammation and healing processes create a physiologic paradox for clinicians whose goals are to limit inflammation and to stimulate healing after acute soft tissue injury.
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Intercollegiate student athlete use of nutritional supplements and the role of athletic trainers and dietitians in nutrition counseling.
TL;DR: Dietitians must accelerate their marketing efforts to student athletes, work closely with athletic trainers to provide sound nutrition information, and provide services that meet the needs of a diverse population of student athletes.
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•Journal Article
Cold Modalities With Different Thermodynamic Properties Produce Different Surface and Intramuscular Temperatures.
TL;DR: During a 30-minute cryotherapy treatment, modalities that undergo a phase change caused lower skin and 1-cm intramuscular temperatures than coldmodalities that do not possess these properties.
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The relationship between intramuscular temperature, skin temperature, and adipose thickness during cryotherapy and rewarming.
TL;DR: Skin surface temperature was a weak predictor of IM temperature during cryotherapy and should not be used as the sole dependent measure in cryotherapy efficacy studies.
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Subcutaneous adipose tissue thickness alters cooling time during cryotherapy
TL;DR: There is a clinically important direct relationship between adipose thickness and required cooling time during cold application, and this relationship necessitates dramatic adjustments to cryotherapy duration to produce similar IM temperature changes.
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