cold baths
Icy water immersions
Cold baths are immersions in unheated water, typically for health or recovery purposes.
Athletes take cold baths after intense exercise to reduce inflammation and muscle soreness.
The practice has gained popularity as a wellness trend, often called cold plunging or cold water therapy: I've been doing cold baths every morning since January.
Cold baths also appear in historical contexts of ascetic discipline or punishment.
- plungeSudden steep descent
- iceWater's solid form
- shiverInvoluntary trembling sensation
- goose bumpsPrickling skin from chill
- goosebumpsRaised skin from cold
immersion · tub · polar · invigorating · bracing · cryotherapy · shock · gasp · deep breath · numbness · nerve endings · recovery · circulation · refreshing · frigid · dip · hypothermia · spa
- Penanceconfession booth, act of contrition, contrition, penitent, public penance
- old curesbloodletting, leeching, purging, cupping, bleeding
- old remediescalomel, laudanum, tartar emetic, nostrum, patent medicines
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Heated water immersions
hot tubs · warm baths · hot springs · heated pools · steam baths
cold bathssteam rooms
Heated rooms with mist
heat therapy · hot baths · saunas · hot tubs · thermotherapy
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