Folk have been making overblown medical claims for cold water for a long-time.

Turns out one of the first proposals for a controlled trial (on #scabies fwiw) was a C19th Irish Dr trolling a cold-water proponent.

Our new #OpenAccess #HistoryofMedicine paper: https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11845-025-04027-x

#ColdWaterTherapy #RCTs #MedicalHistory #scabies #IrishMedicine

Photo: Man swims in cold water. Credit: Oleg Dubyna from Poltava, Ukraine. From Wikimedia, Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 2.0 Generic license, see https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Man_swims_in_cold_water_(34807325734).jpg

Recently discovered cold water therapy. I refuse to call it ice bath cus it not ice, it’s not even ice cold!

But anyway, I’m seriously impressed by the effects. My knees are shit from years of bike riding/crashing etc. most days I end up in pain and often have disturbed sleep because they ache. But since getting a cheap #coldwatertherapy bath from Lidl and using it daily the improvement have been massive.

(10mins at 8 degrees)

Got some aches and pains? Give it a try.

#icebath

My friend, former co-worker and cancer survivor has this thing about cold water therapy stuff; she was in a local group here who did that and she’s found a place or two out where she is now in New Hampshire to continue.
#ColdWaterTherapy
#SandwichNewHampshire
#NewEngland

“Enjoy my little, icy slice of heaven.” - Emily Koester

First cold dip in for fucking ever (my tub was frozen for much of January) and I finally feel more like myself again.

#WildSwimming #ColdWaterTherapy