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A system on an unstable balance
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Even in case of more or less serious disorders related to the spine (scoliosis, kyphosis, and lordosis, or protrusions or disc injuries, hernia…) and the osteoarticular system (pelvis disorders, worn thigh bones, flat feet…), a good muscular tone can compensate for this situation and keep our structure in a good balance.
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Overweight people who do not do physical activity are subject to weakness of the spine muscles; the fact that they cannot keep the back straight facilitates lumbar lordosis, a forward displacement of the abdomen. To recover their balance, people who are subject to lumbar lordosis unconsciously move their spine forward, excessively and painfully contracting the paravertebral muscles; this causes headache and pains in the neck. We have to take care of this typical example of wrong posture behaviours with functional rehabilitation, muscular strengthening, loss of weight because, if overlooked, it can degenerate with time into arthrosis, a pathology there is no cure for.
A correct diagnosis is essential, and possibly this must be performed in a multi-disciplinary way, by a physiatrist, an orthopaedist and a nutritionist. They will determine the structural and physiological causes, and those which are, rather, related to the mind. We cannot forget, actually, that a person’s health is strongly conditioned by the tensions, the level of stress and the possible depressive states he or she feels, as they heavily influence the pain threshold.
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A thermal environment might be the most suitable to deal with and to cure chronic pain
A cycle of personalized therapies and treatments based on specific needs acts in a synergic way on the problem, aiming at pain killer, conservative and rehabilitative results. Mud treatments and thermal baths, analgesic, anti-stress and massage treatments, posture exercises, muscular strengthening and hydrokinesitherapy, sometimes combined with weight loss, not only alleviate the pain, but they act on the original causes to reduce the risk of relapses and strengthen the structure to allow a better life quality.
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Therapies and rehabilitation in thermal water
Being manipulated is difficult when you are in pain, as you tend to involuntarily contract. On the contrary, thermal water deeply relaxes the muscles both because of its temperature (34-35°C) and the lower tension due to gravity; in this environment a therapist can carry out deeper mobilizations with less pain. In the water movements are 10 times slower, thus there are no risks of sudden movements. In the water it is also possible to rebalance the posture, one of the major causes of back disorders.
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Hydrokinesitherapy is the most effective therapy to accelerate and make more steady and safe a post-surgery recovery and a prosthesis implant, and in case of neurological pathologies, ictus and Parkison’s disease.
The metabolic spur of thermal water, together with the proper nutritional and movement approach, are the perfect combination to cure pathologies such as osteoporosis, chronic stress, depressive syndromes, excess weight and obesity.
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