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What Are the Origins of Cold Therapy?
Ancient Greece used it for thermalism, which is this idea of these different temperature pools. Japanese monks would sit under cold waterfalls during the winters and they would meditate. Native Americans would go from cold rivers in the winter time to like sweat huts. It got popular during the civil war because they were utilizing these cold rivers after amputations.