Cold Water immersion and hypothermia

Are you interested in learning more about cold water immersion and hypothermia?  Would you like to know more about what happens to the body when it gets cold and what you can do to mitigate these hazards?

Heather Massey, is one of the UK’s experts in cold water immersion and hypothermia and regularly gives advice to companies, charities and the media on the topic.  She has kindly agreed to give an online talk about why cold-water immersion is hazardous and what you can do to mitigate these hazards.

Heather is a Senior Lecturer with the School of Sport, Health and Exercise Science at the University of Portsmouth and a member of the Extreme Environments Laboratory since 2007, completing a Phd in Environmental Cross-adaptation in Humans.  Prior to that she worked at the Institute of Naval Medicine Unit for six years.

WORKSHOP CONTENT & LEARNING OUTCOMES

Heather’s research interests are in the area of human exposure to heat, cold and altitude and how we can prepare and mitigate the effects of these environments. More recently, she has become interested in establishing if these extreme environments have any benefits to health and wellbeing. She has published 50 research papers and co-authored two book chapters. She is a trustee of Swim the Wright and sits on the medical board of the Ectodermal Dysplasia Society.

As well as her teaching and research, Heather provides advice and support to a range of companies, charities and the media on questions associated with her research. In her spare time Heather is a keen open water swimmer having successfully completed a solo crossing of the English Channel, numerous other open water swims including relay swims round Jersey, Jersey to France, round the Isle of Wight as well as representing GB in the World Ice Swimming Championships 1k event in 2017.

Links to recent publications

Cold water therapies: minimising risks (2022)

Sea swimming as a novel intervention for depression and anxiety – A feasibility study exploring engagement and acceptability (2022)

Short-term head-out whole-body cold-water immersion facilitates positive affect and increases interaction between large scale brain networks (2022)

Perceived Impact of Outdoor swimming on Health using an online survey (2021)

Mood and well-being of novice open water swimmers and controls during an introductory outdoor swimming programme: a feasibility study (2021)

Establishing lower water temperature limits for FINA sanctioned marathon distance open water swimming races (2018)

Open water swimming as a treatment for major depressive disorder (2018)

CANCELLATION PROCEDURE

WHAT HAPPENS AFTER THE EVENT

Your CPD record - If you attend this event and it counts as CPD, your CPD point/s will automatically be added to your record in due course - you will not need to add it yourself.

Please allow up to 2 weeks for the workshop provider to complete the event in the system and assign you your CPD, thank you.

Start

13/06/2023 19:30

End

13/06/2023 21:00

Total Days

0.2

Maximum Bookings

100

Bookings

99

Venue

Online

Town

Capel Curig

County

Conwy

Postcode

LL24 0ES

Country

United Kingdom

Latitude

53.09546

Longitude

-3.94181

Name

Mountain Training Association

Phone

07811 346043

Email