Go Soak Yourself, Doctors Orders

The benefits of getting into hot water.

Ever slip into a hot bath and feel the tension leave your body?

Well, that’s not a coincidence. You were just noticing the healing power of water therapy.

If you were able to add the pulse of massage directly on to your aching muscles you probably felt the stress melting away.

If you’re like me you go through the day without really taking inventory on how your body is reacting to the stress building in your shoulders, neck and back. Sure, good shoes, the right chair even a good mattress play a part in your physical condition. But even though I don’t feel bad, sometimes my wife will walk by and begin to give my shoulders a quick massage and I realize I was sore in places I wasn’t paying attention to.

There are medically verifiable reasons for this.
As we walk around or sit at our computers our body is reacting to things like gravity, lack of movement, allergies, eye strain and dare I say our own body weight. Your body constricts blood flow to some areas to alleviate blood pooling. It tightens muscles around our spines to take some of the weight off our skeletal frame work.

Doctors have determined that just immersing your self in water up to your neck and relaxing will increase muscle blood flow by 225%. Likewise your respiratory system’s efficiency improves by about 60%. Your Heart output increases 32% while your body is at rest and submerged to the neck. Work cited below.

Bruce E. Becker, MD titled “Considering the Biologic Aspects of Water.”

So it all boils down to your body recovers faster from a day of work, whatever work means to you. You need less sleep to feel rested. Your brain even works better because it is getting improved circulation.

So take the doctors advice and get into hot water at least once a day. You’ll thank me later.

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