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Shmuel "Sam" Vaknin (born April 21, 1961) is an Israeli writer and professor of psychology and business studies. [1] [2] He is the author of Malignant Self Love: Narcissism Revisited (1999), was the last editor-in-chief of the now-defunct political news website Global Politician, and runs a private website about narcissistic personality disorder (NPD).
A new study found that cold-water immersion offers a number of short-lived potential health benefits. In the 12 hours after cold-water immersion, participants had reduced stress levels. Brief cold ...
In sports therapy, an ice bath, or sometimes cold-water immersion, Cold plunge or cold therapy, is a training regimen usually following a period of intense exercise [1] [2] in which a substantial part of a human body is immersed in a bath of ice or ice-water for a limited duration.
But the benefits of cold plunge therapy (the more official name) go beyond a yearly dip in the frigid ocean. In fact, the practice has many practical claims, including faster recover.
Cryotherapy, sometimes known as cold therapy, is the local or general use of low temperatures in medical therapy. Cryotherapy can be used in many ways, including whole body exposure for therapeutic health benefits or may be used locally to treat a variety of tissue lesions .
A subset of cryotherapy involves cold water immersion or ice baths, used by physical therapists, sports medicine facilities and rehab clinics. Proponents assert that it results in improved return of blood flow and byproducts of cellular breakdown to the lymphatic system and more efficient recycling.
Another cold front is arriving Friday that will plunge temperatures around North Texas into the 20s and 30s by the weekend, according to the National Weather Service Fort Worth office.
The first stage of cold water immersion syndrome, the cold shock response, includes a group of reflexes lasting under 5 min in laboratory volunteers and initiated by thermoreceptors sensing rapid skin cooling. Water has a thermal conductivity 25 times and a volume-specific heat capacity over 3000 times that of air; subsequently, surface cooling ...