MEDICAL STUDIES NOT JUST A GOOD FEELING
Besides the general enjoyment
and good feeling that the body experiences with a hot bath, we have medical evidence supporting the effects
of hot water as a treatment for many diseases.
Hot Water : The Science HOW HOT WATER WORKS
Like exercising, hot water strengthens your heart
by invigorating blood flow and cooling your body down. It promotes circulation ridding your body of toxins and stimulating your immune system. Hydrotherapy has many of the same benefits of exercising and is an alternative for people who have joint pain or obesity making exercising unfeasible.
Hydrotherapy has a myriad of obvious health benefits
like treatment of sore muscles, back pain, insomnia, and arthritis, to surprising health benefits like treatment of diabetes, stress, weight loss, and heart failure.
ARTHRITIS AND BACK PAIN
STUDIES: The Arthritis Foundation and Arthritis Today.
Heat relieves pain, but hot water does more. Heat therapy stimulates blood flow in areas such as the hands, feet, and lower back causing blood vessels to dilate and muscles to relax. In clinical studies, participants experienced increased flexibility and relief from pain within 2 or 3 weeks and the results lasted for months after the treatments stopped.
HEART & DIABETES
STUDIES: The New England Journal of Medicine, Circulation, American College of Cardiology Foundation
According to studies, repeated hydrotherapy treatments improve your hearts health in several ways. Most notable are preventing coronary heart disease and other improving the condition of patients with cardiovascular diseases, including diabetes. Many doctors believe that hydrotherapy has promising potential to prevent heart disease, especially when combined with diet and exercise therapy.
WEIGHT LOSS
STUDIES: Experimental Biology and Medicine.
Studies show that body weight and body fat in obese patients decrease by an average of 3 pounds after only 2 weeks of hydrotherapy, and over 30 pounds in 10 weeks! It works by correcting the appetite of overweight patients.
INSOMNIA
STUDIES: The National Sleep Foundation (NSF)
Millions of Americans have trouble sleeping. Hot water forces your body to cool itself down by drawing blood away from the head into the muscles and organs. Water stimulates nerve endings on the skin relieving stress. Sweating removes excess energy that may prevent you from a good nights sleep. It also helps with headaches.
OTHER BENEFITS:
Stimulating the immune system, balance disorders, disease that impair circulation, premenstrual syndrome, musculoskeletal injuries, bronchial asthma, multiple sclerosis, spinal disease, weakened back muscles, headaches and migraines, vertigo, mild depression, appetite loss, bronchitis, varicose veins, nervous excitability, hip treatment, hemorrhoids, kidney and intestinal pain, and low blood pressure.