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research on lowering blood pressure, helping dementia and brain trauma with hot baths
“A hot bath is the original hydrotherapy — water treatment — and still the best. Immersion, buoyancy, heat, and vibration (if you’ve got jets) all have useful biological and sensory effects, many of which are useful to people with injuries, pain, anxiety, depression, and more”.
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2. Cool your head–or feet. Sticking your feet out of the bath lets off some excess heat, while keeping the benefits of a raised body temperature. You can also pour cool water on yourself . This will help you to feel better after the bath.
3. Do some self massage in the bath.
4. Stretch in the bath. The warmth decreases muscle tone, flexibility is increased and the buoyancy makes me stretches easier.
5. Drink water-you will sweat in a hot bath (which helps eliminate waste from the body). Drink before and after. Being dehydrated can make you grumpy.
6. Baths are a great treatment for muscle soreness. The heat gets in much deeper than using a heating pad/pack. They are especially good for low back pain. Most low back pain is muscular, especially “knots” in muscles, which a hot bath can ease.
7. Try deep breathing-it may increase your relaxation. Not slow breathing but deep and strong.
Source: https://www.painscience.com/articles/bathing.php
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I hate baths – I like showering. BTW, better to make a paste of baking soda and water, sponge it all around the tub, rinse off. Friendlier to environment and to people.
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Shari B-P,
I like showering too but have never had a jacuzzi tub which I’m told is great cuz the water stays hot.
BTW: it’s better if someone else, other than moi, makes a paste of baking soda, sponges it and rinses it off. After all that pasting and sponging and rinsing I would need another bath.
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Then you take a shower!
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I miss my bath. I only have a shower 🙄
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I, too, only have a shower. The bath I miss . . . cleaning the tub not so much!
jw
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Fill a bottle with half bleach half water, spray around bath, after a couple of minutes rinse with water hose. Hey presto, spotless bath 😀
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Thanks for the tip! I’ll use it on the shower . . . maybe my body too????
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