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hydrotherapy
local heat applications
physical medicine
definition
local heat applications
effects:
1. relaxation of spasticity
2. decreased myospindle response to stress
3. increased suppurative processes
4. increased hyperemia, vasodilation
5. increased threshold of pain receptors
6. increased local circulatory and metabolic rates
7. decreased vascular stasis
8. decreased diastolic BP
9. increased urinary output
10. enhanced absorption of exudates
11. enhanced local nutrition
12. enhanced local blood alkalinity and tissue acidity
13. general sedation and local analgesia
14. increased blood volume
15. increased pulse rate and cardiac volume
16. sweating
17. increased lymph flow
(Jaskoviak and Schafer, 1986, pp. 127)
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