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Paying good money to be hit with water you'd normally complain about for free.
means The use of water — in baths, jets, steam, or ice — as a treatment for pain, injury, or illness.
from Built from Greek 'hydro' (water) and 'therapeia' (healing, service, treatment) — the same 'therapeia' that gives us therapy. The practice itself is ancient (mineral baths, hot springs, cold plunges all predate the word), but 'hydrotherapy' as a formal term took shape in the 1800s, when the water-cure movement turned soaking and spraying people into a proper medical fashion, complete with clinics and earnest men in white coats.
- origin
- ancient greeks and romans basically invented the spa day
- mechanism
- temperature contrast forces blood vessels to exercise
- modern use
- athletes ice-bath to reduce muscle inflammation fast
- range
- spans jacuzzis to literal underwater treadmills