WHAT ARE HEAT TREATMENTS GOOD FOR?
Heat treatments use wet or dry heat to improve circulation of blood and lymph to the skin, clear out toxins, and relax and soothe your muscles and spirit. Heat treatments usually feature saunas, steam rooms or hot stones – also known as “thermotherapy”.
The effect of heat is to cleanse, relax and relieve your body of aches and pains. In a steam room, hot wet air is pumped into the room. In a sauna, the heat is dry and either pumped into the room using vents or generated by stones being heated in the room.
With hot stones, the heat works deep into the muscle to relax and relieve it.
Benefits of Heat treatments:
- cleanse your skin by opening up the pores and drawing out dirt and toxins
- stimulate your circulation, boosting your immune system and encouraging your body to heal itself of infections and scarring
remove calcium deposits from the blood vessels and so break down scar tissue - help shift a cold by opening your airways and helping you breathe more easily, and relieving headaches and sinus problems
- ease back, rheumatic and muscular pain, as the heat warms and soothes the muscles and encourages better mobility in your joints relax you, as stress and tension melt away.