Alternative Medical Treatments - Age Regression in Therapy, Aromaticum Rosatum, Atomidine, Coding (Therapy), Coral Calcium, Duct Tape Occlusion Therapy (Paperback)

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 28. Chapters: Age regression in therapy, Aromaticum rosatum, Atomidine, Coding (therapy), Coral calcium, Duct tape occlusion therapy, Galvanic bath, Halogenerator, Heroin-assisted treatment, HGH controversies, Ice bath, Ideokinesis, Insulin potentiation therapy, Low-dose chemotherapy, Marc Darrow, Mesotherapy, Muscleworks therapy, Prolotherapy, Psychedelic therapy, Psychic surgery, Resperate, Rolfing, Salt therapy, Somatosensory rehabilitation of pain, Wiley protocol, Zero Balancing. Excerpt: In sports therapy, an ice bath or sometimes a cold-water immersion or cold therapy is a training regimen usually following a period of intense exercise in which a substantial part of a human body is immersed in a bath of ice or ice-water for a limited duration. While it is becoming increasingly popular and accepted among athletes in a variety of sports, the method is controversial and potentially dangerous with little solid scientific evidence to support or refute its usefulness or to understand its method of operation within the body, although there is speculation about processes within the body regarding vasoconstriction. In medicine, the practice would be classified as cryotherapy which uses low temperatures as medical therapy. A Polar Bear Club in Massachusetts. Two Russian women preparing to bathe in the lake. Professor Sugarman, the "human polar bear," circa 1900.There have been traditions of people ice swimming in the middle of winter on a lake for short stretches, sometimes as part of a Polar Bear Club. Sometimes people taking short swims for thirty seconds or so have felt invigorated afterwards. The Coney Island Polar Bear Club was founded in 1903. A Polar Bear member explained: In the 1890s, Russian immigrant Professor Louis Sugarman of Little Falls, NY brought his practice of ice bathing to the United States. He attracted...