Physiotherapy Services at the Blancafort Spa
If you suffer from any of the following conditions...
At the Thermal Centre of the G.H. Balneario Blancafort we are aware that your injury requires frequent treatment over several weeks; it needs extra special treatment due to your physical needs. For this reason we offer you all of our rehabilitation techniques and equipment in the form of THERAPEUTIC PACK vouchers with which you will benefit from special prices.
If you suffer from a lesion or illness, one single session of treatment is not sufficient. What you and your physiotherapist need to make significant progress is to undergo several treatment sessions.
Therapeutic packs
The minimum number of sessions is 6.
Price per session: 40 euros
Promotion valid from Monday to Friday (excepting August and long week-ends)
- BACK ACHE
- CHRONIC PAIN AND FIBROMYALGIA
- MUSCULAR STRESS AND STIFFNESS
- RHEUMATIC TYPE PROBLEMS (DEGENERATIVE OSTEOARTHRITIS AND ARTHRITIS)
- MUSCULAR ATROPHY AND DECREASED JOINT MOBILITY
* What does each programme include?
A consultation with the physiotherapist on appointment with the physiotherapy service. Your physiotherapist will design your personalised rehabilitation programme. Each session takes one hour, during which time several techniques can be combined:HYDROTHERAPY, ELECTROTHERAPY (if necessary) and PHYSIOTHERAPY (such as mobilisations and stretching ).
NOTE: Before you start, request an interview with your physiotherapist to discuss the programme that best meets your needs.
The therapy programme will be personalized under the control of your physiotherapist
Benefits of stretching:
- It reduces muscular tension.
- It improves the coordination of movements, making them freer and more fluid.
- It increases the likelihood of movement.
- It prevents damage such as muscular strain. (A strong, exercised muscle resists tension better than one that has not been exercised previously)
- It helps more strenuous activities such as running, skiing, swimming and bicycle riding. It is a way of preparing muscles for use in the future.
- It improves body awareness. By exercising the different parts of your body, you notice and make contact with them while also getting to know yourself better.
- It frees the body from the mind so that the body moves for its own good instead of moving in the interest of competitiveness and vanity.
- It improves and streamlines circulation.
- It is a pleasant sensation.
Joint mobilizations are indicated to treat ailments: such as atrophy and hypotonia, retractions, acute and chronic myositis, minor muscular rupture, dystrophies, muscular contractions, joint stiffness, edema, retractile scarring, muscular limitation, rheumatic processes, serous cysts, pathological, neurological, digestive, respiratory, and cardiovascular processes, obesity, immobilization pathologies, hemi- and paraplegias, Parkinson’s disease as well as infantile cerebral palsy all require their own unique therapy technique and its correct application.
The contra-indications also vary depending on the technique to be used.
General contra-indications to joint mobilisations include malignant tumours, active endocarditis, decompensated cardiac insufficiency, haemopathy, tuberculosis (in the case of active movement-therapy) and synovial effusion, hemarthrosis, recently-wounded soft tissue (in the case of passive movement-therapy).
1.-An approach to the term “aqua-gym”: Physical activities to be carried out in the water.
Stretching for better flexibility.
This therapy is aimed at improving the co-ordination range of the different parts that are affected or limited in movement, such as shoulders, knees and thighs. By way of example, painful shoulders with little functionality acquire mobility that might have been lost for some time. In many cases, it also brings about quite a considerable remission of the discomfort and sensation of invalidity.
Activities to improve aerobic capacity.
Aerobic capacity enables a person to carry out physical activities over prolonged periods of time. It transforms the heart, which is the driving force of the cardiovascular system, into a stronger, more efficient pump. Activities to increase aerobic capacity have a considerable positive effect on people who are not physically fit since they enable them to carry out their every day tasks with less effort. Getting to the gym does not take so much out of them and life generally becomes easier.
We would point out that to achieve these benefits, the workload on the heart will range from 65% to 85% of the maximum heart rate frequency.
Activities to improve skeletal muscular resistance.
Skeletal muscular resistance is the biological capacity that sustains a physical effort of maximum intensity for longer periods. This involves bones, joints, muscles, connective tissues, tendons and ligaments, which are often damaged in elderly, sedentary and injured people, whose capacity to sustain certain physical effort over a prolonged time is limited. A case in point is a person suffering from epitrocleitis who is unable to sustain a weight in the air due to sharp pain felt in the elbow. Movement in the water will, however, be possible since water is a weightless medium and there are no abrupt movements against gravity. The client will be able to work on muscle development in the affected area thereby regaining the functionality of that area.
Muscle toning
Muscle toning involves carrying out two similar actions simultaneously, namely, strengthening and invigorating. This physical strength and vitality is achieved by doing exercises like aqua-running and moving water with the hands against the water’s own resistance.
Aqua gym is ideal for people who need to lose fat from certain zones of their body and for those who need to acquire more strength. It is especially indicated for people suffering from muscular atrophy or whose muscles are lax and need toning up so that they develop a healthy awareness of their own body.
What type of people are advised to do aqua-gym?.
- People with minor or moderate cardio-respiratory problems.
- Sedentary people who do little physical activity in their daily routine.
- Those who have difficulties with psychomotor functions, general dynamic co-ordination as well as dynamic and static balance.
- Those who need muscle toning; people generally suffering from hypotonia or atrophy.
- Those with little joint mobility and flexibility.
- Those who are nervous, uptight, stressed and who find it difficult to relax.
- Those who are lacking in self-esteem, self-confidence and who tend to have a negative outlook.
- Those with an incorrect posture.
- Those who lack rhythm and agility.
- Those with general back injuries (cervical, dorsal and lumbar).
- And in general for all those who love the water and want to do some exercise.
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