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Knowing when to use heat therapy and cold therapy individually for injuries can be tricky - but what about using both together? This technique is known as contrast therapy, and it's becoming increasingly popular among athletes and trainers.
Hot and cold therapy, also known as contrast therapy, involves alternating between periods of hot and cold to maximize the benefits of both as a recovery method to treat physical pain, injuries, and soreness. Individually, hot therapy and cold therapy are both popular recovery methods and when applied correctly and together, you can get maximum benefits which can help reduce inflammation, improve circulation, and speed up the healing process.
PLUNGE COLD IMMERSION
Cold plunging is one aspect of cold water therapy or cold water immersion, which is a practice that involves immersing oneself in cold water temperatures.
Cold therapy is usually used for acute injuries or conditions that are inflamed or swollen. Cold therapy, which causes vasoconstriction (narrowing of the blood vessels), has the following benefits:
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- Lower inflammation
- Reduce muscle soreness
- Boost performance
- Better sleep
- Immune system support
- Increase blood flow
- Reduce chronic pain
- Boost your metabolism
- Boost in energy
- Elevate mood
- Practice discipline
- Increased resilience
- Lower inflammation
CLEARLIGHT INFRARED SAUNA
Hot therapy is typically used for chronic injuries or conditions that are slow to heal. Heat therapy has a number of benefits which include the following:
- DETOXIFICATION
- Daily sweating from sauna use can help detoxify your body as it rids itself of accumulated toxic heavy metals. At low temperature, infrared will penetrate the body’s fat cells to expel what has built-up over time.
- Daily sweating from sauna use can help detoxify your body as it rids itself of accumulated toxic heavy metals. At low temperature, infrared will penetrate the body’s fat cells to expel what has built-up over time.
- A few minutes in the gentle warmth of an infrared sauna will help you feel relaxed, rejuvenated and ready to take on the day.
- A few minutes in the gentle warmth of an infrared sauna will help you feel relaxed, rejuvenated and ready to take on the day.
- Infrared heat can help relieve inflammation, stiffness, and soreness by increasing blood circulation to your muscles. It is also effective in the treatment of sprains, neuralgia, bursitis, muscle spasms, and many other muscular-skeletal ailments.
- Infrared heat can help relieve inflammation, stiffness, and soreness by increasing blood circulation to your muscles. It is also effective in the treatment of sprains, neuralgia, bursitis, muscle spasms, and many other muscular-skeletal ailments.
- When your body takes in infrared heat, it works hard to try and cool down by producing sweat and burning calories. A 30-minute session can burn somewhere between 250 calories or more.
- When your body takes in infrared heat, it works hard to try and cool down by producing sweat and burning calories. A 30-minute session can burn somewhere between 250 calories or more.
- The deep sweating achieved after a few minutes in an infrared sauna helps increase circulation and remove impurities and dead skin cells, leaving your skin glowing and clean.
- The deep sweating achieved after a few minutes in an infrared sauna helps increase circulation and remove impurities and dead skin cells, leaving your skin glowing and clean.
- APPEARANCE OF CELLULITE
- Since the infrared heat of a Clearlight® Infrared Sauna penetrates three times as deep as a conventional sauna, it is significantly more effective at reducing cellulite by lowering the storage of toxins in fat cells.
- Since the infrared heat of a Clearlight® Infrared Sauna penetrates three times as deep as a conventional sauna, it is significantly more effective at reducing cellulite by lowering the storage of toxins in fat cells.
- The Department of Family Practice at the University of British Columbia, found that infrared sauna therapy can help keep blood pressure normal, lower cholesterol levels, reduce chronic pain, and treat issues such as congestive heart failure.
- The Department of Family Practice at the University of British Columbia, found that infrared sauna therapy can help keep blood pressure normal, lower cholesterol levels, reduce chronic pain, and treat issues such as congestive heart failure.
- The penetrating infrared wavelengths from our True Wave Far Infrared and Full spectrum heaters will raise your core body temperature, inducing an artificial fever. Fever is the body’s natural mechanism to strengthen and accelerate the immune response, as seen in the case of infection.
- The penetrating infrared wavelengths from our True Wave Far Infrared and Full spectrum heaters will raise your core body temperature, inducing an artificial fever. Fever is the body’s natural mechanism to strengthen and accelerate the immune response, as seen in the case of infection.
- Much has been written about how infrared sauna therapy can aid and support those managing diabetes because it lowers healing activities to help lower side effects. Working simultaneously, these activities include improved pain threshold, elimination of toxins, and improved circulation.
- Much has been written about how infrared sauna therapy can aid and support those managing diabetes because it lowers healing activities to help lower side effects. Working simultaneously, these activities include improved pain threshold, elimination of toxins, and improved circulation.
Relax in our Zero-Gravity reclining chair while applying the NormaTec attachments that can be mounted on the legs, hips or arms. The most popular with runners and triathletes are the legs. The attachment uses compressed air to massage your extremities and accelerate recovery by mobilizing fluids from the extremities to your core. NormaTec has a patented massage pattern that is considered the most effective way to move fluid in and out of the extremities, which is the reason for the “fresh legs” feeling when you take off your boots.
The idea behind pneumatic compression is that it can aid in muscle recovery, reduce inflammation, and fatigue/soreness management. When you perform physical exercise, you apply stress to your muscles in a way that breaks down the fibers. This temporarily causes muscle inflammation as well as the production of metabolic waste products (lactic acid, bicarbonate, etc.). With the swelling/inflammation and small tears in the muscle fibers, you will experience soreness, fatigue and decreased muscle strength.
The way compression may help is that it temporarily increases blood flow to the target area. This increased blood flow leads to increased oxygen in the muscles, it helps move blood to the heart, and it helps flush metabolic waste from the body. Our lymphatic and vascular systems naturally help our bodies with this task, but pneumatic compression can do this more effectively.