The Benefits Of Hydro-Therapy

“One in six Americans has some type of arthritis. It's a fairly common disease that affects our joints and progresses as we age. Generally, joints swell and become painful and sometimes hard to move, especially after exertion. The older we get, the more pronounced the symptoms. ”

The four most common ailments people use hydrotherapy to treat are: arthritis, lower back pain, insomnia and diabetes.

The Benefits of Hydrotherapy for Arthritis
One in six Americans has some type of arthritis. It's a fairly common disease that affects our joints and progresses as we age. Generally, joints swell and become painful and sometimes hard to move, especially after exertion. The older we get, the more pronounced the symptoms.
Doctors recommend warm hydrotherapy for treating arthritis. It helps by dilating blood vessels in the body, relieving pain and easing the tension in muscles which can become tense as a result of pain. It has been shown that warm water treatment is far more effective than dry heat treatments, like heating pads. In some instances, doctors will recommend alternating hot and cold treatments, especially for treating hands and feet. The repeated dilation of arteries generally has a profound effect on the reduction of pain in these areas.

Treating Back Pain With Hydrotherapy
Behind colds and the flu, back pain is the #2 reason in the USA for doctor visits. Back pain can be caused by a number of things, including stiff or sore muscles, diseases, disorders or injuries of the vertebrae and connective tissue, and pinched nerves. Studies conducted over the last ten years have shown that people who suffer from back pain and who use hydrotherapy as a treatment experience marked reductions in pain versus those people who do not use hydrotherapy. In addition, people who treat their back pain with hydrotherapy use fewer drugs to control their pain, so they don't experience any of hte negative side effects associated with some of these drugs.

Insomnia
Almost all people suffer from insomnia- or the inability to fall askleep- at some point in their lives. For some people, insomnia can be a very severe problem, depriving their bodies of needed rest adn making them feel irritable and depressed, and making them more prone to sickness. Warm baths have been shown to improve both your ability to fall asleep and the quality of your sleep, and as such, hydrotherapy is one of hte most popular home remedies for insomnia and sleeplessness.
Insomnia is generally caused by having too much blood in the brain. Hot baths dilate capillaries in the body and increase blood flow to external areas and to the limbs, drawing blood from the brain. A lower core body temperature has also been shown to help achieve a deeper sleep. Soaking in a warm tub at 104 degrees Fahrenheit two hours before bedtime will both lower your core body temperature and draw blood from your brain, priming you for restful sleep. Enjoying the stress reduction benefits of air and water jet massages will further relax you and make sleeping even easier.

Hydrotherapy and Diabetes
Hydrotherapy has proven useful for helping patients with Type 2 Diabetes. In a study published in 1999 by the New England Journal of Medicine, people with Type 2 diabetes soaked in hot tubs for 30 minutes a day, 6 days a week. Doctors noticed that these patients had an easier time controlling their weight and plasma glucose levels. Some patients even required smaller doses of insulin as a result. Patinets who were unable to exercise reported even more benefits, as hydrotherapy helped increase blood flow to their skeletal muscles.

Hydrotherapy Options From Remain Active
Remain Active's Hydro-Elite Series of walk in tubs offers four tubs with three methods of hydrotherapy to best meet your needs.
Our Prelude Soaker is 38 inches deep offering a full, relaxing soak in warm water. The Duet has six water jets and an inline heater. The Duet provides deep-tissue massage to aching joints and muscles to relieve discomfort associated with lower back pain. IF you suffer from insomnia, poor circulation, diabetes or arthritis the Aria walk in tub is a perfect and relaxing selection for you. The Aria is equipped with 22 injected, heated air jets. The Aria has quickly become a favorite selection for Remain Active's customers.
The Encore is the most prestigious of all of Remain Active's Walk In Tubs The Encore offer all three forms of hydrotherapy in one unit. Whether you desire a long soak, swirling air jets or the deep tissue massage of water jets- The Encore is the tub of choice!

Author - CL Griffin

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