The spa and treatment of water, relax with hydrotherapy
Hydrotherapy uses the natural movement of the water (swimming pools, whirlpools), the natural and artificial jets (shower jets, waterfalls) and the vapors of natural thermal waters as a method of healing and relaxation.
One of the fathers of modern hydrotherapy is Sebastian Kneipp who discovered that alternating baths or showers at different temperatures and properly established, produces a form of exercise very useful in circulation of the blood vessels and muscle bands.
Sebastian Kneipp was born in Bavaria in 1821 by a very poor family. Poverty during childhood had weakened his body and at the age of 28 years Sebastian fell ill with tuberculosis, which at that time was a deadly disease. Thus began an interest natural medicine and hydrotherapy. Kneipp had realized that sudden and constant stimulation with cold water activates the immune system and circulatory system. Every day of the race reached the banks of the Danube and plunge naked into the cold. After a few seconds of immersion, and had it running at home. In just six months was healed.
The operation of modern hydrotherapy is based on thermal and mechanical effects.The nervous system carries stimuli perceived in skin inside the body, stimulating the immune system, affecting the secretion and gastric hormones and strengthening the cardiovascular system.
The application of water on our body always carries a thermal stimulus, unless the temperature is not equal to 34 ° -36 ° (this temperature is called the indifferent why not call for any reaction from our body). a water bath for curative action can be classified on the basis of temperature:
cold, 10 ° -15 °
cool, 25 ° -30 °
warm, 30 ° -34 °
hot, late 36th
The system of therapeutic action of water will always in a constriction of the blood vessels peripheral to which soon follows, for counter-reaction, an expansion of the same. The vaso-constriction causes the expulsion of blood from the skin surface and in its increased inflow into the inside so you have a sudden increase in blood pressure and an accelerated pulse and breathing.
The subsequent vaso-dilation involves the influx of a large mass of blood from deep within the viscera bleed vaseline skin dilated, thus alleviating the work of the heart. This reaction mechanism of the body in contact with water it can be said that gymnastics circulation is very beneficial for a healthy body, as the replacement accellerara staff, promotes diuresis and secretions.
Often, the bathrooms are of particular interest have particular therapeutic or beneficial effects if the water with which it is practiced contains some natural or unnatural. The composition of some baths can have healing properties that rconosciute often added to the benefits of the effects obtained with the mechanical and thermal effects dell'idroterapia.
In the next few episodes will examine some of the treatments on the basis of the water and the benefits to be reaped.
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