I was lying face down on a towel-covered wooden bench in a Russian dry banya, where the air was heated to a toasty 200 degrees. Think Finnish dry sauna, but 60 degrees warmer. Could it get any hotter ...

The treatment room is silent except for the faint rustle of cotton sheets. A client lies facedown, muscles tensed from months of keyboard hunching, as a therapist's palms glide along the rigid terrain ...