<P> Occasionally ice baths have been an ill - advised treatment of fever in young children, but that doctors were counseled not to use this technique because of the risk of hypothermia . Ice baths have been suggested as a way to prevent muscle soreness after shoveling snow . </P> <P> In addition, there have been instances of ice bathing as an extreme bodily test by persons vying for an endurance record, such as Dutch Iceman Wim Hof, and Chinese record - holders Chen Kecai and Jin Songhao . According to reports, doctors and scientists are studying how these people can spend an hour and a half submerged in an ice bath, and survive; for almost all humans, such tasks are impossible . </P>

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