Knowing The Treatments With Heat

Heat treatments - other alternative

Heat applied to the surface - Stovy decontraction Pads

This special type of thermotherapy is for its ease of implementation one of the resources that the patient can use with facility in home, while you must to follow faithfully the indications of your physical therapist to prevent accidental burns. It should also be taken into account the good condition of the skin and decreased sensitivity or skin lesions.

The effects of heat on the tissues depend on the level of increase in temperature (between 40º and 50º C), the speed of implementation of the caloric energy, as well as the amount of tissue exposed. This rise in temperature increases the blood flow, increasing the metabolic activity by favoring the processes of skeletal muscle relaxation
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Also in the form reflects the slow penetration  that has a sedative action on the nervous tissue, thus reducing muscle spasm and pain reduction.

The pads Stovy of practice and quick preparation can be adapted by its thickness size and different measures and models to all areas where are required heat surface.

The patient may be placed above, relaxed, without the risks of contacts with metal elements or sources of electrical energy, the temperature can be regulated by the imposition of towels. Also through its simple adjustments in any position ,even sitting or walking, when there is no time to relax.


Indications:
Osteoarthritis, arthritis, muscle spasms, contractures, pathologies of the spine (with cervical pain, cervicobraquialgias, backaches, lumbago, lumbocitalgias, lumbocruralgias).  Painful rheumatic and processes in all joints of the upper and lower limbs.

Can be applied in patients with metal prostheses or pacemaker where is contraindicated the thermotherapy of  deep agents.

You can also apply to children and adolescents, where also are contraindicated the profound agents over the growing cartilage.

Its general sedative effect  is very important and should not forget about the action on the psyche of the patient when is necessary a psychosomatic relief.

Conclusion of heat treatment:
• The heat increases the extensibility of collagen tissue
• heat decreases the stiffness of the joints
• The heat produces pain relief
• Heat relieves muscle spasm
• Heat increases the blood flow

Contraindications: in lesions of sensitivity or areas of anesthesia, skin lesions, infections, fever, severe circulatory disturbances.