Steam may be more powerful than you think. It smooths clothes and kills germs, but now doctors are testing it against cancer. At Keck Medicine of USC, part of a large nationwide study, researchers are ...

Sauna improves blood pressure by causing vasodilation. Acute sauna bathing (30 min) has been shown to reduce arterial stiffness and improve blood flow via nitric oxide release. Nitric oxide is a ...

Athletes know that recovery is just as important to training as the workouts. After constantly pushing their bodies to the limit, it’s essential to find and use effective recovery strategies that ...

From ancient Roman baths to modern infrared saunas, passive heat therapy has become an increasingly popular therapeutic tool for improving health and reducing the risk and/or severity of disease. As ...

DALLAS — The saying goes that you should stay out of the kitchen if you can’t take the heat, but new research suggests otherwise — for the sake of your blood pressure. In a study published in the ...

You can have back pain from poor posture, pulled muscles or injury, arthritis, and more. Depending on your back pain's cause, ice and heat therapy can be helpful treatments. Knowing when to use ice or ...

Hyperthermia, a cancer treatment using controlled heat to kill tumor cells, shows promise but faces limitations due to some tumor cells' unexpected heat resistance. Researchers from Japan have now ...

Superficial heat-cold application improves sleep quality in RLS patients, with optimal results at 42.5°C for 10 minutes. RLS affects 5% to 10% of US adults, causing sleep disturbances and impacting ...