Hip baths method: hot, cold, neutral and alternative hip bath
Hip baths are one of the most widely used hydrotherapy treatments. In hip baths, the patient has to immerse the hip and abdominal region below the navel in water. The patient is made to sit on a tube, so that her body comes up to the navel from below to submerge it in water. The hip bath is given in hot, cold, neutral and other temperatures.
hot hip bath
A hot hip bath is taken for about ten minutes with water at 40 C to 45 C. The patient is made to sit in a tub of 40 C water and the temperature is increased to 45 C. The cold pack should be applied to the head. avoiding friction with the abdomen. Before hot hip baths, you need to drink a glass of cold water. After a hot hip bath, a cold shower bath is immediately recommended. One should avoid exposing oneself to the cold to avoid chills. This water treatment is helpful in relieving painful menstruation. Reduces prostate enlargement. It is also useful in painful contraction of the bladder, sciatica, hemorrhoids and ovaries.
Cold Hip Bath
For the cold hip bath, keep the water temperature between 10 and 18 C for a period of 10 to 15 minutes, sometimes up to half an hour. If the patient feels cold, an immediate warm foot soak is recommended in conjunction with a cold hip bath. Then the patient’s abdomen below the navel should be vigorously rubbed with a thick damp cloth. After bathing, the legs, feet and upper body should be dried. Then you should undertake a light exercise to warm up the body.
Cold hip bath is a routine treatment for constipation, obesity. Indigestion and regulates the eliminatory organs so that they work properly. This water treatment also helps in menstrual problems, hemorrhoids, liver congestion, prostate congestion and uterine disorders, sterility, displacement of the uterus and ovaries. It is contraindicated in diseases of the pelvic organs, ovaries and inflammation of the bladder, virginal and rectum.
Neutral Hip Bath
Neutral hip baths is a type of hip bath with water of 32º C 36º for 15 minutes to an hour. It relieves acute and subacute inflammations of the ovaries and fallopian tubes and bladder and painful spasm of the vagina, itching of the anus and vulva and acts as a sedative treatment for erotmanis in both sexes.
Alternative Hip Bath
The patient is made to sit alternately in a hot hip with water at 40º C and a cold tub at 10-15º C for about 6 to 8 minutes, respectively. The duration of the hip bath is 10-25 minutes. During treatment, a cold compress is applied to the head and neck. Applying cold water on the hips is the end of the treatment.
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