What Is a Hydrotherapy Treatment?
Hydrotherapy is a method that uses water of various ingredients, temperature and pressure to act on the human body in different forms to achieve mechanical and chemical stimulation to prevent and treat diseases.
Hydrotherapy
- Hydrotherapy uses a variety of different
- The effect of water on the body is extremely complicated, and the changes in the body's response are reflected in many aspects. So far, hydrotherapy can only be considered as a non-specific whole body stimulation therapy, which is a very complex system that is produced by the neurohumoral pathway in the body.
- According to the way water acts, hydrotherapy can be divided into: bathing, scrubbing,
Hydrotherapy bath
- Whole body bathing method: The hot water bath method is often used for various chronic muscle injuries, joint injuries, and peripheral nerve entrapment syndrome. Long leg arthropathy, children's spinal arthropathy, undifferentiated spinal arthropathy, spinal stenosis, scleroderma, eosinophilic fasciitis, dermatosis, banned from hypertension, arteriosclerosis, cardiac insufficiency, bleeding tendency; do not feel Warm bath is suitable for myalgia, neuralgia, pruritus and joint pain. Local bathing: hand bath: cold water bath is suitable for acute inflammation, hematoma, muscle sprain; hot water bath is suitable for convulsions and convulsions; cold and hot alternating bath is suitable for people with vascular and motor dysfunction, hyperhidrosis, acromia Purpura, acute pneumonia, bronchial asthma, acute bronchitis. Foot bath: Cold water bath is suitable for hyperhidrosis of the feet, the feet are permanently cold, and the feet are acutely inflamed. Sit-bath, gradually warming bath: suitable for hypertension, bronchial asthma, myocardial disease, pulmonary sclerosis, gout constitution, insomnia. Electric water bath: indications include motor system disorders such as multiple arthritis, Kashin-Beck disease and gouty arthritis; peripheral blood circulation disorders such as Raynaud's disease, chronic lymphatic circulation disorders of the limbs, varicose veins, and early thrombotic occlusive vessels Inflammation; peripheral nervous system disorders such as polyneuritis, sciatica, brachial plexus, and tibiofibular nerve injury; other states such as autonomic dysfunction, acromegaly, early hypertension, and systemic atherosclerosis. Contraindications include severe heart disease, malignant tumors, bleeding qualities, fever and local skin damage, exudation, and purulent lesions. Ultrasound hydrotherapy: suitable for chronic arthritis of limbs, spinal arthritis, lumbar disc herniation, periarthritis, tenosynovitis, myalgia and soft tissue trauma and inflammation; neurological diseases such as cerebral thrombosis, cerebral embolism, sequelae of cerebral hemorrhage, hemiplegia, Dementia syndrome, epilepsy, brain contusion, acute myelitis, spinal arachnoid adhesions, spinal cord injury and post-traumatic paraplegia, poliomyelitis and its sequelae, sciatica, cervical nerve root irritation, Raynaud's disease, postoperative nerve Pain, trigeminal neuralgia, minor chorea; bone, joint, and muscle diseases such as poor healing of limb fractures; respiratory, cardiovascular, digestive, urogenital, gynecological, otological, and dermatological disorders. Prohibited in severe heart disease, high fever, acute inflammation, active tuberculosis, bleeding tendency, large ulcers in the digestive tract, severe bronchiectasis, malignant tumors; pregnant women's abdominal and venous thrombotic areas are prohibited.
Hydrotherapy scrub
- Banned from those with arteriosclerosis and high blood pressure.
Hydrotherapy flush
- No contraindications.
Hydrotherapy wet cloth wrapping method
- Suitable for gouty and chronic arthritis, neurasthenia, insomnia, nephritis, early hypertension, uremia, obesity. Banned from tuberculosis, hyperhidrosis, skin diseases, and decompensated heart and kidney function.
Hydrotherapy shower
- Direct spray bath: suitable for obesity, neurosis with predominant neurosuppression process, paralysis of insufficiency and low tension. Fan shower: same as direct spray bath. Alternative hot and cold bath: suitable for obesity, muscular atrophy and incomplete paralysis, chronic polyradiculitis. Disabled for cardiac insufficiency, arteriosclerosis, aneurysms, hypertension. Rain-like shower: It is suitable for debilitated people, neurosis, myalgia. Needle shower: Same as rain shower. Peripheral shower: suitable for neurasthenia, autonomic dysfunction, fatigue syndrome, strengthening therapy.
Hydrotherapy
- It is suitable for the treatment of orthopedic diseases, including fracture sequelae, osteoarthritis, ankylosing spondylitis, rheumatoid arthritis, compression fractures, muscular dystrophy, hemiplegia, and traumatic brain injury.
Hydrotherapy bubble bath
- The indication is the same as the water exercise method.
Hydrotherapy Hubbert Bath
- It is suitable for patients who are not adapted or inconvenient to be treated in the water sports pool, but also meet the indications for water sports; large-area burn infections, bedsores, scleroderma, and eosinophilic fasciitis.
Hydrotherapy walking bath
- Applicable to low spastic paraplegia, osteoarthritis, lower limb fractures, joint contractures and rigidity, sequelae of anterior poliomyelitis, lumbosacral radiculitis, sciatica, lumbar disc herniation.
Hydrotherapy whirlpool bath
- Applicable to post-traumatic hand and foot swelling and pain, osteoarthropathy, peripheral nerve entrapment syndrome, muscular rheumatism, paraplegia stump pain, joint twist and contusion, Raynaud's disease, peripheral radiculitis, neuralgia.
- In addition to hydrotherapy, such as arteriosclerosis, cardio-renal insufficiency, active tuberculosis, cancer and cachexia, extreme weakness of the body, and people with various bleeding tendencies must not be treated with water therapy, other diseases can be applied.