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A few days ago I was just reading an article which said that a cold-water immersion or cold therapy is a training procedure usually carried out after a period of intense exercise in which significant part of a human body is immersed in ice-water for a limited time period. I have been thinking that if this cold therapy is beneficial in anyway then why do some athletes put jackets after they are done with exercise. Hence I would like to know that are there any benefits and risks of ice baths?
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If we look in terms of medicine, this practice is classified as cryotherapy which utilizes low temperatures as medical therapy. However, just recently this practice has been declared as not having any benefits at the annual conference of the Irish Society of Chartered Physiotherapists. There was a four-year research program conducted by University of Limerick Professor Alan Donnelly and his team into cryotherapy treatments. This included treatments ranging from ice baths to high-tech cryotherapy chamber. It has been revealed that such treatments of exercise stimulate muscle soreness and damage and have no proven benefits to the human body.
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