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Wikipedia: Cold shower
Encyclopedia article on cold showers as deliberate cold-water exposure after washing—history, cultural practice, and links to physiology and trial literature; tertiary navigation alongside shower RCTs and immersion meta-analyses.
Scope
Centers cold showers as a hygiene-adjacent deliberate cold exposure (often at the end of a warm shower), distinct from full cold-water immersion trials indexed under Cold water immersion (cold-plunge).
Evidence discipline
Use for definitions, cultural context, and outbound citations—not as a substitute for Buijze 2016 (pragmatic shower RCT), Cain 2025 (pooled wellbeing MA), or DOMS-focused immersion syntheses on cold-plunge.
Pairing in this wiki
wikipedia-dousing-overview— pouring / shock-style cold water.wikipedia-hydrotherapy-overview— broader hydropathy / spa lineage.wikipedia-ice-bath-overview— post-exercise immersion narrative.
Outcomes
- stress-responseTertiary overview of practice history and claimed wellness themes—quantitative illness-absence and wellbeing outcomes belong to PubMed-linked shower and pooled CWI sources on `cold-exposure`.