Hydrotherapy is an external application of water (well, lake, river, water) for therapeutic and preventive purposes. Hydrotherapy is a division of physiotherapy. Hydrotherapeutic procedures: wraps, compresses, medical baths, dousing, washing, wiping, shower and bath. The impact of such procedures on the body depends on the duration of the procedure, the intensity of its mechanical effect, and the temperature of the water.
Hydrotherapy: indications
Hydrotherapy has a positive effect on respiratory, cardiovascular and nervous systems. The body increases resistance to the influence of unfavorable factors of the external environment, train the mechanisms of thermoregulation, hemopoiesis and metabolism is activated. If used with a temperature above 35.5 degrees, the body gives heat, resulting in the body heating up. If the water temperature is below 35.5 degrees, then the body cools. Cold or cool procedures are used depending on the group of health, following the recommendations of the doctor, they are used for hardening, they have a toning effect.
Mechanical action of water is carried out due to underwater massage, movements in water, hydrostatic pressure (soul, bath), all this contributes to increased metabolism, general and local blood circulation. In order to strengthen the therapeutic effect, before the procedure (wraps, compresses, baths) in the bath add coniferous extract, sage broth, sea salt, etc. Children these procedures are prescribed for the treatment of the kidneys, musculoskeletal system, for the treatment of the nervous system and so on. .
Hydrotherapy with cold water from 10 degrees to 24 degrees is used as a method of hardening. It is shown as a stimulant of the function of the cardiovascular and nervous systems, as a general tonic. Procedures with water from 37 to 39 degrees are prescribed for violations of lipid metabolism, in violation of water-salt metabolism, urinary tract, digestion, respiratory system, neuroses, chronic respiratory diseases, chronic polyarthritis. Hydrotherapy with hot water from 40 degrees and above is recommended for increasing the level of metabolic processes and as a sweatshop. Hydrotherapy with water from 34 to 36 degrees is indicated in hypertensive disease of the first stage, functional cardiopathy, vegetative-vascular dystonia, with neuroses.
Contra-indications of hydrotherapy
Contra-indicated hydrotherapy for those with infectious skin diseases, blood-forming organs and blood system diseases, a tendency to bleeding, tuberculosis in the active phase, neoplasms, cardiac decompensation. In gynecology and obstetrics with prophylactic and therapeutic purposes, procedures of hydrotherapy - swimming in water, irrigation, vaginal douches, a bubble with cold (ice) or hot water, warming compresses, wiping, washing, showers, baths and so on - are used.
Indications for hydrotherapy
Postoperative complications, inflammation of the genitals, infertility, bleeding. Before applying this or that procedure of hydrotherapy it is necessary to consult the doctor in advance.