An Inside Look at Iowa State’s Sports Medicine Dept.

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[Photos courtesy of Iowa State University]
[Photos courtesy of Iowa State University]

The average year-round temperature in Ames, Iowa, is just under 50 degrees Fahrenheit, certainly nothing to prepare Iowa State University student-athletes for the cryotherapy chamber the athletic department installed in November. Wearing gloves, slippers and little else, athletes are surrounded from the neck down in air mixed with liquid nitrogen — and temperatures dropping to below minus-180.

How does it feel? "Cold," says Mark Coberley, who's been in such a chamber only once in his life.

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