Hydrotherapy Provides Many Healing Benefits

Immerse yourself in ultimate water healing, also known as hydrotherapy. The benefits of hydrotherapy have been appreciated for thousands of years. Still today, hydrotherapy is the cheapest and safest method for treating ailments.

Buoyancy: Being in water reduces body weight by 90%, relieving pressure on sore joints and muscles. An added bonus of buoyancy is the feeling of weightlessness which also brings a sense of peace and relaxation.

Hydrostatic Pressure: Focused whirlpool jets provide a massaging action, which combined with weightlessness relaxes tight muscles and releases natural pain killers, called endorphins, into your system. These endorphins energize the body, strengthen the immune system, reduce inflammation, heal injured tissue, and improve wellbeing.

Heated Water: Hot water raises your body temperature and causes blood vessels to dilate. This increases circulation, including circulation of the immune system's white blood cells, which can speed up you r body’s natural healing processes.

Cleansing Power: Hydrotherapy supplies fresh nutrients and oxygen to injured tissue and helps with the removal of waste products.

If you suffer from injuries, stroke, respiratory infection (including pneumonia), arthritis, or stress, hydrotherapy may help reduce your symptoms.

Defend Against Stress with the Help of Hydrotherapy

Hydrotherapy reduces the effects of stress by increasing endorphin production and blood circulation. A dip in water healing before bed can reduce bouts of insomnia. And hydrotherapy has been found to help in the prevention of tension headaches.

Add Hydrotherapy to Your Arthritis Prescription

Although hydrotherapy alone has not been proven to reduce joint pain and inflammation and increases blood flow, studies have shown that patients who use hydrotherapy in conjunction with water exercises and massage do achieve relief from arthritis pain.

Open Your Respiratory Infection to Healing Hydrotherapy

Individuals who suffer from upper respiratory infections (pneumonia, bronchitis, influenza, asthma, even common colds) can benefit from hydrotherapy in the form of hot baths, vaporizers, and saunas. Hydrotherapy opens airways and assists in the circulation of white blood cells to infected areas, increasing respiration and healing.

Generally hydrotherapy treatments are safe but there are precautions that should be considered before beginning any treatment. And it is recommended that you consult your physician first to ensure you are not at risk. Certain precautions to keep in mind are as follows...

• Remember to drink plenty of fluids before and even during hot bath hydrotherapy to prevent dehydration.
  
  
• Women who are pregnant should stay in a hot bath for only 10 minutes or less to prevent risk of overheating.
  
  
• Injuries that may be aggravated by strong motions from water jets may wish to conduct hydrotherapy in a bathtub without jets or in a whirlpool bathtub with the jets off.
  
  
• Exposure to extreme temperatures (either hot or cold) could worsen conditions of circulation disorder, heart disease, lung disease, chilblains, or Raynaud's phenomenon.
  
  
• Nerve damage that creates difficulty in perceiving temperature can be harmful if one is unaware of exposure to extreme water temperatures.