Any of these water procedures will not only give you the desired coolness on the hottest day, but also noticeably tighten the body contours.
The appeal to the healing powers of water was familiar and natural even in the most ancient centuries. In our age of advanced cosmetics and plastic surgery demand, including water, does not give up its leading positions.
And this is quite understandable: water has truly magical properties... It not only relaxes and refreshes, but also tightens and rejuvenates. There is no life without water, especially in summer. WomanJournal.ru will tell you what water procedures to prefer within the city or at a resort!
Water procedure: baths (with sea water, with mineral water, turpentine)
The simplest SPA procedure, but no less effective, is a warm bath familiar to city sissies. There are many types of therapeutic baths - these are baths with sea \u200b\u200bwater, and turpentine baths, and soda, and relaxing, and tonic. Each of them has its own effect.
Depending on what goal you want to achieve, choose the appropriate one. For example, baths with sea salt and algae extract not only help to fight excess weight and sagging skin, but also perfectly relax and calm the nervous system.
You can do such a water procedure at home. To do this, dissolve 500 grams in water sea \u200b\u200bsalt and pour in the concentrated algae extract. The water temperature should not exceed 35-37 degrees, and the time for taking is 15 minutes. After bathing, rinse with a cool shower and rest for half an hour.
Turpentine baths are not so much refreshing as a therapeutic type of SPA procedures. Such baths are very effective for weight loss. Thanks to turpentine (mixture essential oils from conifers) toxins are removed from the body, which means that cellulite and sagging skin disappear. In addition, the metabolism improves due to the expansion of capillaries and the normalization of blood flow. However, be careful: turpentine baths have contraindications. Therefore, before immersing yourself in warm and aromatic water, consult a specialist. Better yet, sign up for the procedure at a professional medical institution.
Water treatment: Charcot shower
This water procedure bears the name of the famous French neuropathologist Jean Martin Charcot. Its main meaning lies in the fact that the active points of the body are affected by jets of water of different power. Feelings are peculiar. Thousands of small arrows seem to be thrust into the skin. It hurts and tickles at the same time. However, this fee is nothing compared to the result that remains after several sessions. Namely: it rises, and at the same time the state of health and mood. As for aesthetics, here as a bonus you get a firm body and toned skin without a hint of the notorious “ orange peel". However, you will see the result not earlier than after 10 procedures.
Water procedure: contrast douches
A contrast shower is an urban version of the good old Russian tradition of diving from a hot steam room into a cold ice hole. Behind such a simple and affordable water treatment lies a magical therapeutic and prophylactic effect. Immediately after bathing, an angelic lightness appears in the body.
If you make it a rule to take a contrast shower, the first results will not be long in coming. Within a week, you will notice that your appetite has decreased, your body contours have become clearer, and your skin firmer. All this is easily explained: a contrast shower activates metabolism, strengthens the heart and blood vessels.
How do you complete the procedure? It's very simple: first, rinse your body with warm water, then turn on hot water for a minute (as far as you can tolerate), after abruptly change to cold water. Time for a contrast shower is approximately 15 minutes.
Water treatment: hammam
In fact, the Turkish "hammam" is the famous Roman "terms". The ancient Romans knew a lot about wellness procedures, including water.
The Roman-Turkish steam room is fundamentally different from the Russian one. Here, soft wet steam is held in high esteem: in the bath there is 100% humidity. In the hammam, time flies by, the body completely relaxes and rests. In addition, pores open, toxins and slags are released, the skin is cleansed and acquires a healthy color and tone.
Ideally, a specialist will give you a relaxing massage right in the steam room. Even in the heat, when leaving the hammam, you feel freshness and lightness throughout the body.
Water treatment: sauna
Unlike the southern, humid, relatively “cool” hammam, the Finnish bath has a more serious character. The temperature in the steam room reaches 100 degrees. The hot air burns the lungs slightly, so breathe slowly and calmly in the sauna. People who often visit the sauna note that thanks to this procedure, overall well-being and appearance... Still: the sultry air opens the pores, removing all the toxins through sweat, the metabolism gets better and works like a clock. After the steam room, you can dive into the cool pool and cool off a little. Do you think that the way to the bathhouse in hot summer has been ordered? But no! The temperature in the sauna is much higher than outside, which means that you will invariably feel cool, even if the thermometer reads “only” + 35 C.
Water treatment: hydromassage
The use of hydromassage is most often part of complex programs for losing weight and getting rid of cellulite. Do not confuse professional "water massage" with household whirlpool baths, which give an aesthetic pleasure rather than a pronounced therapeutic effect.
After 30 minutes of this water treatment, the skin feels about the same as after a classic manual massage - it is pink and hot to the touch, but without bruises and swelling. The main advantage of the hydromassage is that, unlike the massage therapist's table, you bask in warm water, the effect of the jets is gentle, but very effective. At the same time, the effectiveness is not inferior to other types of corrective massage.
You will need about seven water treatments to smooth out irregularities in problem areas. To relax your body and muscles after a stressful workday, visit the hydromassage once a week.
You can see each of these water procedures in the list of any SPA-salon. It doesn't matter where it is located, within your city limits or at a foreign resort.
Can you treat yourself with ordinary water? It is not only possible, but also necessary, because the healing possibilities of various water procedures are impressive.
"Ladder" temperatures
The water used for treatment is divided by doctors into cold (below 20 ° C), cool (20-23 ° C), indifferent, that is, close to body temperature (34-37 ° C), warm (38-39 ° C) , hot (40 ° C and above).
In order to use this temperature "ladder" with benefit and pleasure, one must remember that cold and coolness stimulate the nervous system and metabolism, especially in the liver and muscles.
Warm water, on the other hand, relaxes and soothes, it has a beneficial effect on joints and tendons.
IN hot water sweat begins to be released, so the metabolism also increases, although this requires more energy from the body than when exposed to cold.
Water of an indifferent temperature soothes with increased nervous excitability, helps to cope with insomnia.
Do you want to get this or that effect? Then immersion in water of the desired temperature should be regular. Sessions can be held every other day or two days in a row with a rest for the third. The course is 12-15 sessions, but may include 25-30 procedures.
Jets Not only baths have a healing effect, but also showers. There are many varieties of it: rain, needle - with very thin streams, circular, dusty, jet, or Charcot shower, perceptibly cutting through the skin.
Dust, rain and circular soothes the nerves, relieve physical and mental stress, reduce arterial pressure.
Charcot shower activates metabolic processes and is extremely invigorating. Thanks to this procedure, blood flow increases not only to the skin, but to all internal organs.
There is also a Scottish shower, an improved version of the Charcot shower. A person is alternately hit by two strong jets from the hoses. In one it is hot - from 37 to 45 ° C, in the other - cold, from 10 to 25 ° C. This is a very powerful procedure and not for everyone.
Smooth hardening
Dousing is most often resorted to when they seek to temper the body or want to quickly cheer up. Standing in a bath or a large basin, slowly pour two or three buckets of water over themselves, just above shoulder level. First, every two days, its temperature is lowered by a degree in order to "slide" from 34-33 ° C to 20-18 ° C. When the skin gets used to it, you can proceed to contrasting douches - alternating cold water with hot.
If you want to tone up, end the session with cold water. If you need to calm down, pour water over your body temperature after a series of contrasts. After each dousing, you need to thoroughly rub yourself with a towel or a terry sheet until you feel a pleasant uniform warmth and slight reddening of the skin.
Wrap yourself in a cocoon
The wrapping procedure is very effective and varied in action. A thick woolen blanket is spread on the bed or couch, and a wrung-out sheet, previously moistened with water heated to 30–35 ° C, is placed on top of it.
The naked man lies down on the couch, raises his arms, and is wrapped around one end of the sheet. Then he stretches his arms along his torso, he is wrapped with the other end of the sheet and wrapped in a blanket. The free ends of the blanket and sheets are tucked under the feet so that a "cocoon" is formed.
In the next 10-15 minutes, if a person has a fever, it begins to subside. At the same time, the patient experiences excitement and a surge of energy. Then, within 30–40 minutes, a phase of calmness and drowsiness sets in.
If the procedure is continued further, an abundant separation of sweat begins, with which toxic metabolic products are excreted from the body. At the end of the wrapping procedure, you must change into dry clothes and lie in a warm bed for at least two hours. And it is best to do wraps before bedtime.
People have paid attention to the beneficial properties of water procedures for a very long time. Thermal springs or lakes with healing mineral water were known by our ancestors.
IN Ancient Rome there were baths that served not only as baths for ablutions, but also as hospitals to restore strength to soldiers of the Roman army wounded in battle. At this time, they already knew and used such procedures as hot and cold baths, moisturizing, wraps, mud therapy and treatment in mineral springs.
Nowadays, such types of water procedures as showers, baths, hydromassages are widely used for the prevention and treatment of many diseases. For example, soothing baths and showers are beneficial for a disorder nervous system, with weakness and fatigue - tonic souls will help, and for patients with diseases of the musculoskeletal system, of cardio-vascular system doctors will definitely prescribe preventive water procedures.
For removing toxins, cleansing the skin and restoring health, a bath or sauna is well suited. Here, the human body is cleansed with the help of heating, an increased metabolism occurs, and blood circulation improves. Thanks to the contrast between warm air and cool water, hardening occurs, which is especially important in the cold season, during flu epidemics.
For the treatment of diseases of the musculoskeletal system, for problems with the skin or obesity, hydromassage is prescribed. It strengthens and restores the elasticity of the walls of blood vessels, improves blood circulation and heart function, metabolism. To strengthen the nervous system and fight stress, a Charcot shower will be useful. It will strengthen the immune system, increase muscle tone, help you lose weight and get rid of cellulite. In a good way recovery of strength, rejuvenation of the body will also be coniferous, sage, iodine-bromine baths. Baths with the addition of herbal decoctions are useful. Their action is based on the fact that smells irritate the olfactory receptors, and they in turn affect the central nervous system.
However, it is possible to prepare a healthy, relaxing and soothing bath at home. This is very easy to do. For example, to prepare a coniferous bath, you should buy pine needles extract at the pharmacy and dissolve it in a small amount in a warm bath, following the instructions on the package. Nice music will help you to relax and unwind while taking a bath, you can turn on
Hydrotherapy - external use of water with preventive and therapeutic purposes... Hydrotherapy (water) procedures include baths, showers, general and partial douches, rubdowns, wet wraps. Their actions are due to the temperature, mechanical and chemical effects of water and depend on the procedure used.
Water procedures should not be used in case of hypothermia and fatigue. In this case, you should first warm up (rest), then, after hydrotherapy, also rest, lying or sitting in a chair.
Power heat exposure water depends on its temperature. According to this indicator, they are distinguished:
- cold procedures (below 20 ° C);
- cool (20-33 o C);
- indifferent (indifferent) (34-36 about C);
- hot (over 40 o FROM).
Water procedures
Douche
Infusions can be local or general. For general douches, 2-3 buckets of water are poured out slowly - within 1-2 minutes. so that the water evenly flows down the body, then vigorously rub the patient with a warmed sheet and wipe dry.
The procedure is carried out daily for 4-6 weeks. Gradually lowering the water temperature from 34-33 o C to 22-20 o C. General dousing increases tone, has an exciting effect on the central nervous system, and enhances metabolism.
With partial douches, often with cold water (temperature 16-20 o C), only part of the body is doused: the back of the head, in order to improve breathing and blood circulation; arms and legs - when excessive sweating, varicose veins, etc.
Rubdown
The patient is quickly and vigorously rubbed over a damp sheet for 2-3 minutes until a feeling of warmth, then wiped with a dry sheet. Sometimes, after wiping down, the patient is poured with 1-2 buckets of water, the temperature of which is 1-2 ° C lower than the temperature of the water taken for wiping, then wiped dry (the so-called wiping with pouring). The patient can carry out the procedure on his own, wiping the entire body with a sponge or a special mitten soaked in water, and then rubbing himself dry with a towel.
Weakened patients are given a partial rubdown. For a patient lying in bed under a blanket, first one leg is opened, then the other, an arm, back, etc., on which a towel soaked in water and wrung out is applied and thoroughly rubbed on top of it, and then wiped dry and covered with a blanket again.
Sometimes added to water table salt, alcohol, cologne. This rubdown has a refreshing and tonic effect, improves blood circulation and increases metabolic rate.
Wraps
For wet wraps or wraps, a large blanket is laid out on the couch and a sheet moistened with water (temperature 30-25 ° C, rarely lower) and well wrung out on top. A naked patient is first wrapped in a sheet, and then in a blanket. Depending on the duration, the procedure can have antipyretic (10-15 minutes), sedative (30-40 minutes) and diaphoretic (50-60 minutes or more) effects.
Healing shower
One of the most popular types of hydrotherapy are showers: ordinary rain shower and needle shower, charcot shower.Scottish shower, rain shower and needle showers have a slight irritation, water is supplied to them under low pressure, they are prescribed mainly as refreshing and tonic treatments.
With Charcot's soul, the patient, standing at a distance of 3-3.5 m from the control panel, is first doused from all sides with a fan jet of water (fan shower), then a compact jet is applied to parts of the body with muscle layers or bone base (limbs, back, lateral surfaces chest). Avoid getting the jet into the face, head, breasts and genitals. The first procedure is carried out at a water temperature of 35-32 o C, daily or every other time it is lowered by 1 o C and by the end of treatment is brought to 20-15 o C. Charcot's shower is prescribed mainly for functional diseases of the nervous system, metabolic diseases, especially obesity.
Scottish (contrast) shower
The action of the Scottish shower is that a stream of hot (37-45 ° C) water is alternately directed at the patient for 30-40 seconds, and then cold (20-10 ° C) for 15-20 seconds. This is repeated 4-6 times.
As a local procedure, it is prescribed for obesity, constipation associated with a decrease in intestinal tone (on the stomach); with myositis of the lumbar muscles, lumbosacral radicult (on the lower back).
Circular shower (needle, Swiss)
A circular shower is carried out in a special box, which is equipped with pipes for supplying water in a vertical and horizontal position from all sides of the box. Water is supplied under a strong pressure, about 1.5 atm, and many thin streams from all sides have a hydromassage effect on the human skin and body.
The ascending perineal shower is used when hemorrhoids , prostatitis, proctitis, etc. The patient sits on a tripod over the ring-shaped seat, under which the rain shower head is installed, facing upwards. Water jets (temperature 36-25 o C) fall on the perineum.
Circular and ascending perineal showers last for 2-5 minutes, they are carried out daily, only 15-20 procedures.
Underwater shower massage
Underwater shower massage is a procedure in which a patient is massaged under water with a stream of water supplied from a hose under pressure. Thermal and mechanical irritation of the skin improves blood and lymph circulation, and thus tissue nutrition, stimulates metabolism, and promotes faster resorption of inflammation foci.
Indications for the appointment of a shower massage are: obesity, gout, the consequences of trauma to the musculoskeletal system, diseases of the joints (except for tuberculosis), muscles and
tendons. consequences of damage and diseases of the peripheral nervous system, residual effects after postponed poliomyelitis with symptoms of muscle paresis, sluggish healing trophic ulcers (without thrombophlebitis), etc.
With a general underwater shower-massage, the whole body is exposed. With local massage, a stream of water from a hose with a tip is directed to a specific area of \u200b\u200bthe body (joint area, lumbar region, etc.), while the water temperature is 36-38 o C.
With a general underwater shower-massage, the water temperature can be gradually increased to 40 ° C, with a local one - up to 42 ° C. The course of treatment is 15-20 procedures. General underwater massage cannot be combined with other water and thermal treatments, ultraviolet irradiation and etc.
Showers as hydrotherapy procedures are contraindicated in acute inflammatory processes and exacerbation chronic diseases hypertension stage II and III , severe angina pectoris, myocardial infarction , heart aneurysm, chronic cardiovascular failure , condition after a recent stroke (6-8 months), malignant neoplasms, benign tumors with a tendency to grow, bleeding, tuberculosis in certain phases of the disease, infectious diseases, weeping eczema, pustular skin diseases, etc.
Healing baths
Baths are also referred to hydrotherapy procedures, in which the effect on the body of hot and cool water, steam, etc. is controlled by the medical staff.
The most popular are the Russian bath with a steam room and the dry-air Finnish sauna. The effect on the body is based on the contrast of temperatures (warming in a thermal chamber - a steam room and subsequent cooling in a pool, under a shower or in a cool room), which promotes vascular training.
The importance of this procedure is well known in the elimination of disorders associated not only with colds, but also with other diseases, in increasing the adaptive forces to changes in air temperature (heat, cold, hypothermia) and the immunological response to various kinds of infections, in enhancing metabolism and excretion function. from the body of waste products of exchange that are unnecessary for him, etc. It is possible to use the baths for medical purposes only on the prescription of a doctor and according to the method proposed by him, with periodic medical supervision of the general condition.
Indications for the appointment of baths as a hydrotherapy procedure are non-specific diseases of the upper respiratory tract, musculoskeletal system (outside the stage of exacerbation), the initial manifestations of hypertension, atherosclerosis, the consequences of trauma lower limbs, exudative diathesis, etc.
Contraindications to the bath are epilepsy, malignant and benign (growing) tumors, infectious diseases, severe hypertension and atherosclerosis, bleeding, blood diseases.
Baths
They are among the most common hydrotherapy procedures in which the human body is immersed to the neck level or partially in water for a certain time.
By the volume of exposure, they are distinguished:
- General (full) baths, when the whole body is immersed in water up to the neck level.
- Waist or half-baths, in which only the lower half of the body is immersed.
- Local (partial) limb baths.
Coniferous baths prepared by adding powdery (50-70 g) or liquid coniferous extract (100 ml). The industry also produces coniferous tablets, which are added to the bath (1-2 tablets each). The aroma of pine needles has a calming effect, which makes these baths indicated for neuroses. The water temperature is 35-37 о С, the duration of the procedure is 10-15 minutes. There are 10-15 procedures per course.
Sage baths prepared by dissolving condensed sage condensate in water in an amount of 250-300 ml. These baths have anesthetic and calming effects. Their duration is 8-15 minutes, the water temperature is 35-37 о С, 2-3 times a week. There are 12-15 procedures per course. It is used for diseases and injuries of the musculoskeletal and nervous systems.
Mustard baths can be local and general. Use 150-250 g of dry mustard per bath, previously diluted in a small amount warm water... The water temperature is 37-39 o C. The duration of the general bath is 5-8 minutes, the local bath is 10 minutes. After the bath, the patient is washed with warm water and wrapped for 30-60 minutes. Mustard baths cause irritation and redness of the skin, they are prescribed for acute diseases respiratory organs (ARI, acute bronchitis, pneumonia), especially in children.
Pearl baths - the acting medium is water with many air bubbles formed by thin metal tubes with holes, where air is supplied under pressure. Such "boiling" of water has a mechanical effect on the patient's skin. Baths are indicated for functional disorders of the nervous system, general fatigue, at stage 1 of hypertension. The duration of the procedure is 10-15 minutes, daily or every other day. The course includes 12-15 procedures.
Carbonic baths - the acting medium is natural or artificially prepared carbonic mineral waters. The body is covered with many small gas bubbles, which have a chemical effect on the nerve receptors of the skin, which causes a reflexive response of its vessels. They expand and blood circulation is significantly improved.
Radon baths - to prepare them, a concentrated radon solution is used, which is obtained from a solution of radium salts. Radon baths enhance metabolic processes, have a general sedative and analgesic effect, normalize blood pressure, and improve the contractile function of the heart. Their use is indicated for chronic polyarthritis, osteochondrosis of the spine, neuroses, diseases of the peripheral nervous system, gynecological diseases.
Oxygen baths prepared using an apparatus for saturating water with oxygen. The oxygen concentration in the bath does not exceed 50 mg / l. The water temperature is 35-36 ° C, the duration of the procedure is 10-20 minutes daily or every other day. There are 12-15 procedures per course. In addition to the usual sedative effect of fresh, temperature-indifferent water, during this procedure, oxygen bubbles have a slight mechanical effect, like air bubbles in a pearl bath.
Hardening and winter swimming
Recently have become very popular epiphany bathing in the hole, however, it must be borne in mind that such procedures are not suitable for everyone. The hardening of the body with cold water should be carried out dosed and very gradually. Even walruses with more than 6 years of experience should not be very cold water more than 2.5 minutes.
