Ascent shower - therapeutic effect on the body

Healing with the help of water procedures is very popular nowadays. The benefits of hydrotherapy have been identified since ancient times, when water was considered life-giving and healing. Treatment, rehabilitation and prevention of diseases with water are so popular because of their accessibility and simplicity. One of the most favorite types of hydrotherapy for patients is shower. The essence of such hydrotherapy is the effect of water jets on the body, the pressure and temperature of which vary. The shower as a type of hydrotherapy may be circular, rain shower, Scottish shower, Charcot shower, needle shower, and others. We will dwell on such a variant of local shower as ascending shower, learning about its features, the effect on the body, the indications for such a local shower, as well as the possibility of conducting it at home.

Unlike such types of hydrotherapy, such as Vichy shower, contrast shower and similar, a course of sessions of the ascending shower is used not in cosmetology, but for medical purposes.

It is prescribed for the treatment, prevention and recovery from diseases that are involved in urology and gynecology. This procedure can be prescribed at any age. In particular, children can use the perineal shower to treat bedwetting, and elderly patients are often prescribed the ascending shower as a treatment for sciatica.

The ascending shower is a variation of the local therapeutic shower. It is also called perineal shower, since the peculiarity of this shower is the direction of water jets on the crotch.

The patient is seated on a special seat with holes, while jets of water of a certain temperature (15-40 degrees) and a certain pressure (1-4 atmosphere) are directed on his body from below, which explains the name of the shower - ascending.

This shower affects the pelvic organs, which is why it is most often prescribed in the following practices:

• Proctological;
• gynecologic;
• Urological practices.

The use of this type of shower, due to the massaging effect of the water, improves blood circulation in the pelvic area and contributes to a quicker relief from inflammatory processes.

Changing the pressure of the water jets up to 4 atmospheres and the temperature from 25 to 40 degrees Celsius have a different effect on the patient.

The procedure is usually prescribed as a course, like other types of hydrotherapy. The ascending shower can be performed every other day or every day, with 10-20 sessions in one course. One perineal shower session lasts on average two to five minutes.

For the treatment of sciatica of the sacral and lumbar region, this type of shower is a procedure combined with a sitting bath. In this case, the procedure acts not only on the perineum, but also on the sacroiliac area.

The installation for the ascending shower is represented by a special stool, which has a ring-shaped seat. It is equipped with a special massage sprayer, equipped with a regulator of the angle of water spraying.

First, set the temperature of the upcoming procedure, after which the patient is invited to sit on the seat (if it is a man, you need to make sure that the seat protected the scrotum). The water comes from a rain shower net, which is mounted so that its holes point upwards.

If the shower is administered to a female patient, it is a bidet shower.Therefore, it can also be used as a local gynecological bath. The construction of such a shower is an earthenware cup with a built-in ascending shower and an outlet on the bottom. It is by closing this hole that the device can be used as a tub for various gynecological procedures.

Recall that this type of health-therapeutic shower is hot and warm, When the purpose is hyperemia and heating of the perineum area, as well as the organs of the small pelvis (for example, in proctitis or to treat inflammations of the female genitalia).

Also the ascending shower can be cold and cool, If the action of the procedure is aimed at reflex stimulation and irritation of the skin in the perineal area to affect the centers of innervation (for example, in some versions of impotence).

Low temperature perineal showers are also indicated for hemorrhoids, when the goal is a cooling effect. The temperature of the water affects the duration of the session:

• if the shower is warm, the treatment lasts 4-6 minutes,
• If the shower is cold, the effect often ends after 2-3 minutes.

The main indications for the procedure are represented by such pathologies and problems:

• impotence, prostatitis (cold showers are prescribed);
• Sphincter atony, rectal fissures, chronic constipation, hemorrhoids;
• urinary incontinence;
• Proctitis (a warm shower is prescribed);
• Gynecological diseases, including menstrual cycle problems and infertility (warm showers are prescribed).

There are no specific contraindications to the procedures, However, the ascending shower is not prescribed in cases where water therapy is not carried out at all. For example, these are severe diseases of internal organs, a tendency to bleeding, high body temperature, infectious diseases, cancer pathology, skin diseases, hypertension of the 3rd degree, tuberculosis.

We should immediately stipulate that the procedures of the ascending shower should not be performed at home, if there has not been a preliminary consultation with a specialist. Only a doctor should determine how long the ascending shower should be and with what temperature of water the procedure should be carried out.

At home, a shower hose is used for this type of shower, directing the water jet to the crotch area.