Simple physical treatments that apply heat or cold to ease pain and swelling, including cryotherapy, ice packs, ice baths, hot water bottles, heating pads, warm compresses, sitz baths, thermotherapy, contrast baths and the RICE method. An entry belongs here when its own source describes warming or cooling the body as treatment. It excludes light, electrical and aquatic exercise therapy. Each member is a physical rehabilitation entry that the atlas covers as a subject in its own right, placed here on what its cited article says it is and how it is used, never on its name alone.
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Cryotherapy (Wikipedia)
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Cryotherapy, sometimes known as cold therapy, is the local or general use of low temperatures in medical therapy.
Ice pack (Wikipedia)
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An ice pack, or cold pack (or, in specific cases, gel pack), is a portable bag filled with water or another liquid, or refrigerant gel, meant to provide cooling.
Hot water bottle (Wikipedia)
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A hot-water bottle is a bottle filled with hot water and sealed with a stopper, used to provide warmth, typically while in bed, but also for the application of heat to a specific part of the body.
Heating pad (Wikipedia)
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A heating pad is a pad used for warming of parts of the body in order to manage pain.
RICE (medicine) (Wikipedia)
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RICE is a mnemonic acronym for four elements of a treatment regimen commonly used for soft tissue injuries: rest, ice, compression, and elevation.
Warm compress (Wikipedia)
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A warm compress is a method of applying heat to the body.
Ice bath (Wikipedia)
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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 in which a substantial part of a human body is immersed in a bath of ice or ice-water for a limited duration.
Cold compression therapy (Wikipedia)
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Cold compression therapy, also known as hilotherapy, combines two of the principles of rest, ice, compression, elevation to reduce pain and swelling from a sports or activity injury to soft tissues and is recommended by orthopedic surgeons following surgery.
Sitz bath (Wikipedia)
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A sitz bath or hip bath is a bathtub in which a person sits in water up to the hips.
Heat therapy (Wikipedia)
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Heat therapy, also called thermotherapy, is the use of heat in therapy, such as for pain relief and health.
Contrast bath therapy (Wikipedia)
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Contrast bath therapy is a form of treatment where a limb or the entire body is immersed in hot (but not boiling) water followed by the immediate immersion of the limb or body in cold ice water.
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