Cold Water Immersion Recovery
25 Oct, 09 | by Karim Khan
Cold Water Immersion is one of the latest trends in encouraging recovery. At the Olympics several swim teams set up immersion tanks on the warm-up pool deck for “recovery”.
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On a slightly different note cold water immersion or more precisely a cold shower is thought to be a cure for depression. A new paper suggests a simple cold shower might sometimes cure, and even prevent, the debilitating mood disorder.
http://dsc.discovery.com/news/2007/12/18/depression-cold-shower.html
The study’s author, Nikolai Shevchuk, believes the biological explanation revolves around a part of the brainstem known, appropriately enough, as the locus ceruleus, or “blue spot.”
I wonder if there is some connection?
Edwin Harnell
October 26th, 2009 at 7:04 pm