The Science of Hot Water Immersion: How it Promotes Healthy Bodies, Hearts, Minds and Lifestyles
The simple act of immersing in warm water promotes healthy bodies, hearts, minds, and lifestyles. This exceptional new book summarizes the present knowledge about many health benefits that result from immersion in water.
Based on interviews with leading scientists and 25 scholarly publications, you will read the scientific explanation of how hot-water immersion can help to heal our injuries, exercise our heart, and improve our mental health.
The 36-page, four color book, published by the National Swimming Pool Foundation®, is authored by Dr. J. B. Smith, Indiana University of Pennsylvania. This well written and beautifully illustrated book has six chapters, plus a bibliography of scientific references.
It begins with the “Potential for Warm Water Immersion” to introduce the general concept of how immersion benefits health. Chapters two through five reveal the benefit of Hot Water & Healing Hot Water & Heart Health Hot Water & Relaxation Hot Water & Mental Health and Hot Water & Living.
NSPF® reinvests a percentage of revenue from this book to fund additional health benefit research.
