Thermal water in rehabilitation and reeducation.

Hydrokinesitherapy in motor rehabilitation: what is it and what is it for?

“Hydrokinesiotherapy uses the chemical and physical properties of thermal water to reduce pain and muscle contracture, strengthen muscles, re-educate functional resumption of voluntary movement, and stimulate coordination and balance,” Dr. Marchesi explains.

The first principle on which it is based is the absence of gravity: “The natural lightening of body weight, given by immersion, allows the performance of exercises and manipulations with a slight degree of stress on the musculoskeletal system.
It is possible, therefore, to apply the technique with reduced stress and with the muscles completely relaxed, allowing postures and gestures unthinkable outside the water.”
With gentle and consistent exercises, the patient recovers faster and without pain, with an ideal cadence of two or three sessions per week.

If, then, the advantages of working in the absence of gravity are combined with the physicochemical benefits peculiar to the thermal water salso-bromo-iodine thermal water of the Monticelli Spa the recovery is even more immediate: “The thermotherapeutic effect produced by immersion in thermal water reduces muscle contracture and pain through a specific action on sensory skin receptors.”