What is hydrotherapy?
Hydrotherapy uses hot and cold water to stimulate your body’s innate ability to heal itself. The contrasting temperatures promotes circulation, moving immune cells, oxygen and nutrients through the body to wherever they’re needed most. Hydrotherapy can help you sleep, reduce your stress, speed healing from infections and keep you from getting sick in the first place.
Our in-office constitutional hydrotherapy treatments utilize both contrasting temperature and comfortable stimulation to the spine and abdomen. This supports immunity by moving immune cells throughout the body and by optimizing digestion and elimination. Treatments take roughly 45 minutes.
In some cases, the doctor may recommend adding diathermy to the end of a constitutional hydrotherapy session. This is a time-tested method for deep heating and disinfecting, and is extremely powerful for treating lung, sinus and other deep infections. You will experience a gentle, velvety warmth. Many patients notice substantial symptom reductions within 24 hours of treatment.
Although we offer relaxing, in-office constitutional hydrotherapy treatments, this therapy is easily done at home by anyone with access to hot and cold water. Ask us for a handout on home hydro treatments at your appointment.
“I feel so great!!” — Micah, two hours after a constitutional hydrotherapy session
Celilo Falls
