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Hydrotherapy - indications for use.

Hydrotherapy is one of the oldest and most popular physiotherapy treatments. Hydrotherapy is represented by several types of water procedures with different purposes and areas of influence. Water for hydrotherapy is used from different sources: plumbing, swimming pools, groundwater (thermal springs). The temperature regime of water procedures is selected depending on the goals of treatment.

For hydrotherapy, showers, hydro-massage baths, vibration baths, natural springs gushing out of the ground, dousing, and saunas are used.

Showers for hydrotherapy are distinguished by a variety of effects, which depend on the intensity of the gushing jet, on the atomization of the jets (impact on a certain area or point effect), and on the temperature regime of the water (contrast shower).

Currently, hydrotherapy procedures have begun to be combined with therapeutic gymnastics, which is called "hydrokinesis therapy".

The main purposes of hydrotherapy are to relax the skeletal muscles, smooth muscles (forming the walls of the internal organs) and the effect on the skin and subcutaneous layers. In addition to the relaxing effect, water has a microcirculatory effect on the skin, improves blood supply, and therefore tissue trophism, is capable of breaking down the subcutaneous fatty tissue with the force of an impact. Water is able to stimulate the work of internal organs and thermoregulation of the body.

Hydrotherapy is used in several areas of medicine:

In dermatology,
For diseases of the musculoskeletal system,
In case of malfunctioning of internal organs (for example, kidneys, intestines),
With diseases of the cardiovascular system,
In cosmetology.

It is very important to coordinate water therapeutic procedures with a doctor, since in many pathological conditions hydrotherapy is contraindicated, and sometimes even dangerous.

It is especially risky to use hydro-procedures for people with cerebrovascular accidents, angina pectoris, arrhythmias, unstable blood pressure, inflammatory processes in tissues, with a tendency to thrombus formation.