25/09/2025
Discover "Contrast Therapy" at Zero Gravity Escape Reality in Klerksdorp 🔥🧊
Contrast therapy, sometimes called bathing therapy, typically involves alternating between cold and warm immersion—think: ice bath to infrared sauna and back again. You can immerse your entire body or just a single body part, explains Suzanne de Jongh, co-owner at Zero Gravity Escape Reality in Klerksdorp. “Typically, the individual alternates between an infrared sauna and a cold bath, with cycles lasting a few minutes each. Anything from 20-minutes to an hour in the contrast therapy room.
Alternating between a cold plunge and a infrared sauna might sound like a relaxing way to spend an afternoon at a spa, but there are also some very real physiological changes happening in your body when you take a contrast bath.
“The alternating temperatures create a ‘vascular pumping’ effect,” de Jongh says. Here’s how that works: The warm water opens your blood vessels (called vasodilation), bringing more blood, oxygen, and nutrients to your muscles and other tissues. Then cold water narrows your blood vessels (called vasoconstriction), taming inflammation and swelling, she explains.
All together, these changes “may help increase blood flow, deliver more oxygen to tissues, reduce swelling and inflammation, remove waste products, and speed up healing,” Definitely a therapy worth trying! Book your first session Zero Gravity Escape Reality today!
