Case Report: Acute hydrotherapy with super-saturated hydrogen-rich water for ankle sprain in a professional athlete
Javorac D, Stajer V, Ostojic S. · F1000Research. 2020;9:245.
What kind of evidence is this?
Human
Case report
Exercise and recovery
H₂-rich water
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Methods at a glance
Human participants studied for exercise and recovery; age 29 years. See eligibility criteria in the linked full text.
Human study; the article does not state one consolidated sample total, so no total is inferred.
24 hours
Full text reports H₂ dissolved in drinking water. Detected intervention quantities or schedules: 24 hours, 4 hours, 60 min, 8 ppm.
H₂ dissolved in drinking water — H₂ only unless the full text explicitly reports oxygen co-delivery.
H₂-related quantities reported in the intervention passages: 24 hours, 4 hours, 60 min, 8 ppm. Values are not combined across different experimental arms.
Not applicable — no inhaled H₂ intervention was identified in the full article.
No inhaled O₂ co-delivery was identified for this non-inhalation intervention.
Control or comparison condition reported in the full article; see the linked methods for arm-specific details.
Outcomes and reported result
clinical symptoms or functional scores, apoptosis or cell injury
Article-reported result excerpt (24 words maximum): “At the initial examination immediately after the injury, right ankle was painful, swollen and warm, and had increased laxity on testing ( [Figure 1],…” This excerpt is not a complete result summary; consult the linked full text for all positive and null findings.
The complete machine-readable article was checked for source identity, methods, intervention quantities, results, tables, funding and conflict declarations. This public record is based on the full article.
A reported association, difference or mechanism is not automatically a clinical benefit. Null findings, outcome type, study design and precision all matter.
Cautions and applicability
Human evidence; design, sample size and comparator limit interpretation. No funding statement was identified in the machine-readable full article; absence is not inferred. No explicit conflict statement was identified in the machine-readable full article; absence is not inferred.
Applies only to the population and protocol reported in this exercise and recovery article.
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No single-study GRADE certainty rating is assigned. Certainty is assessed by important outcome across a complete eligible evidence set, not by attaching a final grade to one source.
Sources and record status
PMID: 32399209 · DOI: 10.12688/f1000research.22850.1
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Official Europe PMC JATS full article and PubMed/PMC identifiers; structured full-text extraction and validation completed 8 August 2026.
2026-08-10