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Health Benefits of a Safety Bath
February 25, 2009
Walk in bath tubs and slide-in bathtubs provide you the most relaxing and satisfying bathing experience of any tubs available.
The idea of a bath healing your mind, body and soul are not new hypotheses. The pre-Christian Romans spent entire afternoons at the public baths, fraternizing or reading. Bathing was used as a therapeutic and healing approach . Water is not just for cleansing but also for making us feel healthier. Now you can enjoy these same healing benefits with walk in tubs or slide-in bathtubs.
The use of heat through soaking in water while in a walk in tub is soothing. Walk in bath tubs ease muscle tension and ease pain while enhancing circulation by causing blood vessels to widen. Water treatment is one of the first , cheapest and most secure ways for treating many common aches. With a safety tub or slide-in bath, water convalescence at home couldn’t be easier.
Just look at the health advantages a walk in bath can provide:
A Full Soak (up to the chest):
*Calms your mind
* Evens your emotions
* Helps with insomnia
* Eases muscle strain
* Cuts back hemorrhoids
* Reduces arthritis pain
* Adds to circulation
* Promotes elimination of impurities via the skin
* Calming to the nerves
* Remedies bladder and urinary problems
* Assists mild colds
* Reduces fevers
* Helps to maintain metabolic function
Sitz Bath (up to your hips):
* Advantageous for conditions affecting the abdomen
* Inflammations
* Pelvic congestion
* Cramps
* Hemorrhoids
* Menstrual problems
* Kidney and intestinal pains
Hot Footbath (up to your calves):
* 15 minutes to rejuvenate cold feet
* Alleviates the bladder
* Helps the kidneys
* Reduces throat and ear swelling
Cold Foot Bath:
* Helps tired feet
Hot and Cold Foot Bath
* Bolsters circulation in the legs
* Alleviates varicose veins
* Helps headaches
* Assists insomnia
* Decreases high blood pressure
A cool bath can also release itchy skin, mild depression, asthma and unlike common belief, can increase your libido.