A short, sharp, cold water swim may offer an alternative to strong painkillers and physiotherapy to relieve severe persistent pain after surgery, suggest doctors in the journal BMJ Case Reports.

Cold forced open-water swimming: a natural intervention to improve postoperative pain and mobilisation outcomes? BMJ Case Reports 2018; doi:10.1136/bcr-2017-222236

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Tags: Alternative, Chronic pain, cold, Cure, extreme cold, forced mobility, immersion, intercostal neuralgia, Pain, postoperative, remission