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Water therapy to beat arthritis

Exercising in water significantly improves the strength and movement of arthritis sufferers, research today revealed.

The authors published the results of their six week study of 105 over-50s with osteoarthritis of the knee or hip in the Annals of Rheumatic Diseases.

• Hydrotherapy is a general term for a group of alternative treatments that use water for the relief of various diseases or injuries, or for cleansing the digestive tract.

• There are three categories of external hydrotherapy: hot water, cold water, and alternating hot and cold water.

• Hot water stimulates the immune system and increases circulation, helping to relieve the body of toxins. By soothing nerves, hot water calms and relaxes the body.

• Cold water constricts blood vessels and is effective in reducing inflammation.

• Alternating hot and cold water treatments have been found to alleviate upper respiratory congestion and stimulate organ function through improved circulation.

  It is believed to stimulate blood and lymph circulation, relieve congestion, tone body tissues, ease pain, relax the nervous system, and improve overall health.

• The use of hydrotherapy has a long history as a form of medical treatment.

• In classical times the Romans and Greeks found sources of water that were considered to have healing properties.

• Hydrotherapy is also used in colonics to cleanse toxic waste from the colon and restore optimum health.

• Hydrotherapy is used in the treatment of race horses' injuries and can ease the pain of tendon and ligament injuries, bone damage, fractures and splints and other problems of animals, as well as humans.

• Patients are immersed in warm water because gravity is abolished, the body floats and the limited power in the muscles can be amplified to produce larger movement of a particular limb.

• The warmth of the water produces heat which relaxes muscles and helps to ease pain; resistance to movement in water can be used as a basis for graded exercise.

• After an operation the muscles around a joint tend to waste, and some may have been weakened by the cutting effects of the surgery.

• Movement against gravity is painful, so being immersed in warm water makes that movement much easier.

• Water tends to lift the limbs and this action helps to improve joint movements and get them back into proper working order.

• Hydrotherapy baths have been used for water births as it relaxes the mother, reduces blood loss and birth pain.