Contrast Therapy (1961)

Record 012 · Heat · 1961

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Contrast Therapy

Hydrotherapy practice

“Alternating heat and cold — the protocol most objects in File 004 claim to enable.”

Contrast water therapy in athletic training, and sauna-then-lake in the north, share a method: vasodilation, vasoconstriction, repeat. Hardware is optional; the switch is the protocol.

The hinge protocol between heat and cold catalogs.

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  • Alternating temperature bouts
  • Sauna-plunge pairing
  • Contrast water therapy

Hot, then cold, then again.