Hydro-therapy.... & its benefits

Hydro-therapy has been the saving grace for the past 2 days. It has been helping out in pain relief and god knows how much would it have helped.

Fact:
The therapeutic effects of warm water treatment include lowering of blood pressure, fatigue relief, faster tissue repair and pain relief.

here is a transcript from a webpage that i referred to a while back:

Spa therapy for lower back pain

Lower back pain is the number two reason in New Zealand (after colds and flu) for a visit to the doctor. Thousands of people suffer needlessly.

For many years Europeans have used spa therapy (soaking in hot baths of mineral water) as an alternative treatment for various chronic diseases. Yet, the effectiveness of such therapy for chronic lower back pain has not been well documented.

In 1995, a study published in the British Journal of Rheumatology offered evidence that spa tub therapy aids both short and long term benefits for people with lower back pain.

A later study, published in the Journal of Rheumatology by a group of researchers in France, sought to confirm these results and quantify the overall benefits of spa therapy.

After three weeks of consistent spa therapy, examinations showed more improvement in the health status (as measured in pain duration and intensity and back flexibility) of the spa treatment group than in the medication only group. After six months, significant improvement continued in the spa therapy group. In addition, their use of analgesics and anti-inflammatory drugs had decreased.