How cold does the water have to be to have the benefits of hydrotherapy?

[Cicero]

So I was reading taking a cold shower as multiple benefits how cold does the water have to be? How could I know it's cold enough to have the benefits without it getting painfully cold?

[Dimitri]

Here (http://vsearch.nlm.nih.gov/vivisimo/cgi-bin/query-meta?query=Hydrotherapy&v%3Aproject=nlm-main-website) is a search done for you, hydrotherapy....this is one of the websites I use quit often and should provide good results....

[fitzman16]

Yo dude cold showers are ment for teen guys to take when their rly horny ans hot and havr to take a cold ahower to cool off. Thats only "benefit" that i know of

[KidImage]

I have heard of that and the fact that cold showers help you get your skin harder. Some more advantages are that it helps relieve depression, strengthens Immunity, improved circulation, increases testosterone, Increases fertility. But the user above me is wrong because cold showers actually make a guy more horny that's why the testes hang outside they are ment to be kept cool.

[Dimitri]

Yo dude cold showers are ment for teen guys to take when their rly horny ans hot and havr to take a cold ahower to cool off. Thats only "benefit" that i know of

I would love to hear your logic behind this, please, indulge me.... As a former Athletic trainer Assistant we used hydrotherapy to numb nerves and allow stretching to take place, reduce pain and inflammation....

[fitzman16]

I would love to hear your logic behind this, please, indulge me.... As a former Athletic trainer Assistant we used hydrotherapy to numb nerves and allow stretching to take place, reduce pain and inflammation....

Im just saying, normally when you here a teen guy taking a cold shower, thats normally the reasoning behind it.

[Dimitri]

Im just saying, normally when you here a teen guy taking a cold shower, thats normally the reasoning behind it.

Yet here in the Sports and Fitness part of the forum I don't think that is what he was insinuating....