Hydrotherapy
Hydrothermotherapy is a therapeutic procedure that uses as a hot water agent. They use:
simple water network;
mineral waters with different chemical compositions;
Simple salt water enriched with salts, plant extracts, mud. Thermotherapy (heat therapy) is a very valuable therapeutic method, with effects on the body. Generally gentle heat is sedative, decontracting, relaxing. If these effects add the effect of water (easier movements, pleasant sensation in the tub or basin, and sometimes the chemical composition of water), you get the value of hydrothermotherapy. Air, water is the one that gives life to the planet. In Antiquity it was considered the root of all things, being a fruit of love and unity between the earth and the air. Leonardo da Vinci said that the water was given the magic power to become the life of the earth. Water is an almost perfect solvent that nature has made. Two thirds of the Earth’s surface is occupied by water. Two-thirds of the human body is water, the regeneration of life is done only in the presence of water.
Water Whims:
participates in the process of thermoregulation of the body;
increased caloric conductivity.
Water roles:
structurally two-thirds of the body’s water is endocellular.
Thermal waters:
waters with a temperature> 20 ° C, irrespective of mineral content;
temperature between 20-31 ° C = hypothermic
temperature between 32-38 ° C = thermal
-temperature> 38 ° C = hyperthermal. The mineral waters used in the spa therapy of degenerative rheumatism are:
* oligomineral thermal waters;
* salty waters: concentrated, iodate, sulphurous;
* Thermal sulphurous waters.
Effects of heat:
* Painkiller;
* Decontracturant;
* Vasodilator;
* lowering pain.In baths lower muscle contraction at temperatures * above the area of indifference:
* 34-36 ° C for fresh water
* 32-34 ° C for carbonated water
* 38 ° C for sludge.
PHYSIOLOGICAL BASES OF THERMOGRAPHY
1. Body-environment heat exchanges. Thermal ratio between zonacentral and peripheral.
Hydrothermotherapy includes a series of procedures that use hot or cold water, chemicals or gases, as well as hot or cold applications through various applications such as steam, hot air or other substances such as paraffin, mud, or their mixture to which sepot adds Mechanical factors: friction, kinetotherapy. The vertebrae that interfere with the effects of these procedures are mainly two: thermoregulation and peripheral circulation. From the point of view of the thermal regulation, the human organism knows three ways:
– thermoregulatory compartment – clothing, shelter (eg bird migration, animal adaptation, hibernation);
chemical thermoregulation – modification of metabolic exchange: thermogenesis of the urine and non-shudder and thermolysis;
– physical thermoregulation
– against the cold: increasing the sealing capacity of the superficial parts