A Hot Tub Is Not Just Relaxing – It’s Also Good For You
The mind, body and spirit can benefit from soaking in hot water – health benefits ancient cultures discovered millennia ago. A nice, calming soak in a Hot Spring® spa not only gives you a soothing experience it could also be recommended by your doctor. A Hot Spring spa is a natural way to help you feel better, whether you are using the benefits to relax after a long, hard day or to relieve the soreness in your joints and muscles from a strain or injury.
Experiencing Hydromassage
Buoyancy, massage and heat all work together in your spa, creating a hydromassge experience that is both calming and relaxing.
Sitting in a hot tub can increase your circulation when your body temperature is raised by the hot water, causing your blood vessels to dilate. A calming sense of feeling weightless is achieved when approximately 90% of your body weight is reduced by the buoyancy of the water, which relieves the pressure and tightness in your muscles and joints.
The jet nozzles combine water and air, or an “energized” stream of water. This stream stimulates the body’s natural pain killers, endorphins, to be released while the massaging action loosens tight muscles.
Benefits for Arthritis
Arthritis affects an estimated 50 million Americans, in some form. Most of the 100 different kinds of arthritis often result in loss of joint function or movement and are characterized by pain, stiffness, and swelling of the joints, caused by inflammation.
A hot tub is sought out by many people who are affected by arthritis, seeking relief in the soothing, warm water. Conveniently located in your backyard, a hot tub can exercise and relax your muscles and joints with its massage, buoyancy, and warmth.
Benefits for a Better Sleep
Researchers of sleep have traced stressful, busy lifestyles to being a cause of insomnia. There are many different symptoms of sleep deprivation including grogginess, depression, erratic mood swings, battered nerves and lapses in memory.
Your body can ease into a deep, relaxing sleep as your body temperature drops, according to a study in the scientific journal Sleep.
Using this information they have determined that soaking in 103°F water for 15 minutes, 1.5 hours before bedtime is most beneficial. This allows you to fall asleep easily as your body pulls down your temperature with its internal thermostat.
A spa allows you to drift off to sleep naturally instead of suffering from grogginess and other adverse side effects caused by alternative sleeping aids such as, alcohol, prescription drugs and over-the-counter remedies.
Benefits for Diabetes
The closest hot tub could be help to the 23.6 million people who have diabetes (Type 1 or 2). The benefits of spa ownership and how beneficial relaxing in a hot tub can be for people with Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus is indicated by a published study in the New England Journal of Medicine.
Many people are able to control this type of diabetes with a good diet and exercise. Although, maintaining a steady weight and participating in rigorous activity can be physically impossible for some diabetics.
