Baths and compression boots

Biles described Epsom-salt baths and compression boots among her recovery practices in 2020. The account gives no bath amount, exposure duration, boot model or pressure setting.

Reported protocol · For reference, not advice

Date of record:: 9 Jul 2020

Interventions

Recovery

Epsom-salt bath
Details & sources
A reported recovery practice; toxin removal and magnesium replacement through the skin are not established.
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Device

Compression boots
Details & sources
Model, pressure and session duration were not specified.
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Sources

Original accounts behind this protocol. Numbers match the references in each intervention.

01Simone Biles on Her Recovery Tricks, Training Diet, and Olympics-Ready Gold Eye Makeup Source for this protocol