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Move over EPO: Dynavision’s CoreControl cooling glove enhances performance with just a vacuum and ice

Could it be true—ice and a vacuum can give a steroid-like boost to your athletic performance while speeding your recovery? According to peer-reviewed studies, yes. The glove, called CoreControl and developed by Stanford University biologists H. Craig Heller and Dennis Grahn, ups an athlete’s stamina by decreasing his core body temp through one of the body’s sweatiest spots, the palm of the hand.

Tuesday afternoon, Jim Harbaugh wrapped up the 2012 season with his end-of-year press conference. He spoke about the coaches and players getting some much needed R&R after a grueling season. However, Harbaugh also discussed the need to constantly be looking for that edge that will help players and the franchise improve:

Take a couple of weeks to recharge the battery, but also thinking while we’re doing that on how to get an edge, what our edge will be, individually looking at ourselves and seeing how we can get better. I think that’s always the hardest lens to look at it through. Everybody’s going to want to have a lens to look at this season or look at this last game, or the final plays of the game. But our lens really has to be, and it’s the toughest one to look through, is ‘How can I improve?’ Accountable for our own edge and improvement in those areas. So, critical? Yeah, vitally, vitally critical.