A PT recommended contrast baths (putting the affected area in ice water, switch to hot water, back to cold, etc. for specified times) as a way of rehabbing a tendon injury. She recommended it along with a lot of other things, so it's pretty likely that the contrast bath was one thing to try among many things.
I've done regular cold plunges that kinda helped with mood/stress. From what I've found, someone can get the same effect dunking their face in a bowl of ice water. It can work, but a cold shower might work just as well.
Would you say you noticed a difference from the contrast baths, or, maybe I should say, a difference you’re comfortable attributing to the contrast baths, in terms of your tendon injury?
I’m very much in favor of the potential metal health effects, but I can’t honestly say I found any proof that the mental health effects are the product of a physiological process that results from drastic temperature change. So it may be possible to achieve those same effects by doing something that’s similar in giving you a bit of time to yourself, being pretty diverting, and preventing you from thinking about other things/worries/anxieties, and if so, those other activities might be less unpleasant and an easier sell.
With the contrast baths, it's a little hard to tell. The baths were recommended along with a bunch of other things with a kind of "throw everything at it" mentality. It feels good in the short-term, which isn't nothing, but I'm not sure that it cures or recovers anything.
It's not bad if your major stressor is being too hot. Otherwise, a cold or sharp change in temperature might not be the best way.
Yeah, I think that's definitely one of the issues with studying this stuff: Most people come in, have an injury, and in order to test the efficacy of contrast baths, the PT would have to select some people to NOT offer them to (and specifically forbid from use). Even if it's only marginally helpful or placebo effect, it's hard to justify not letting people kind of try everything. Or: Maybe it's less important to study the effects than it is to resolve the issue, and since contrast baths are almost certainly not harming anyone, it's kind of a "Why not?"
A PT recommended contrast baths (putting the affected area in ice water, switch to hot water, back to cold, etc. for specified times) as a way of rehabbing a tendon injury. She recommended it along with a lot of other things, so it's pretty likely that the contrast bath was one thing to try among many things.
I've done regular cold plunges that kinda helped with mood/stress. From what I've found, someone can get the same effect dunking their face in a bowl of ice water. It can work, but a cold shower might work just as well.
Would you say you noticed a difference from the contrast baths, or, maybe I should say, a difference you’re comfortable attributing to the contrast baths, in terms of your tendon injury?
I’m very much in favor of the potential metal health effects, but I can’t honestly say I found any proof that the mental health effects are the product of a physiological process that results from drastic temperature change. So it may be possible to achieve those same effects by doing something that’s similar in giving you a bit of time to yourself, being pretty diverting, and preventing you from thinking about other things/worries/anxieties, and if so, those other activities might be less unpleasant and an easier sell.
With the contrast baths, it's a little hard to tell. The baths were recommended along with a bunch of other things with a kind of "throw everything at it" mentality. It feels good in the short-term, which isn't nothing, but I'm not sure that it cures or recovers anything.
It's not bad if your major stressor is being too hot. Otherwise, a cold or sharp change in temperature might not be the best way.
Yeah, I think that's definitely one of the issues with studying this stuff: Most people come in, have an injury, and in order to test the efficacy of contrast baths, the PT would have to select some people to NOT offer them to (and specifically forbid from use). Even if it's only marginally helpful or placebo effect, it's hard to justify not letting people kind of try everything. Or: Maybe it's less important to study the effects than it is to resolve the issue, and since contrast baths are almost certainly not harming anyone, it's kind of a "Why not?"