Hot, Cold, Contrast Therapy Flashcards
What works by extracting heat from warmer tissue?
Cold therapy
What are the indications for cold therapy?
- Inflammatory process
- Sensory rehabilitation
What are the effects of cold therapy?
Reflex effects : local cold is metabolically depressive but simulative to the body as a whole
Brief cold : stimulatory
Longer cold : vasoconstriction, decreased heart rate, stimulate organs
How to perform cold pack?
- Cover ice pack with barrier
- Have client take deep breath in and place on area to be treated
- Leave for 5-10 min
- Check in often about temperature and monitor client comfort
How to perform ice massage?
- Prepare ice cup and have towel on hand for drips
- Get client to take a deep breath in and place ice to area to be treated
- Move in small circles or figure 8 movements constantly during treatment
- Wipe up drips
- Use CBAN (cold, burning, aching and numbness) to keep checking in on client
- 5 min maximum
What are the precautions for cold therapy?
- Use a barrier
- Circulatory diseases
- Sensory changes
What are the contraindications for cold therapy?
- Peripheral vascular diseases
- Allergies to cold
- Circulatory diseases
- Sensory loss
- Client laying on cold pack
- Specific treatments directly over the heart
Heat Hydroptherapy
- intended to raise tissue temperature between
33-38 degrees for warm and over 38 for hot
● increased heat will increase blood flow and cell
metabolism
● capillaries dilate on the superficial levels which
will then disperse heat from the tissue quickly
● a coupling medium can be paired with heat, it
helps tailor its effects to the goals of treatment.
What are the indications of hot therapy?
- Increase circulation
- Sensory rehabilitation
What are the effects of hot therapy?
- Increased metabolism of affected tissue
- Altered cardiovascular dynamics
- Direct effects on soft tissue structures
- Analgesic effect
How to perform heat pack?
- Cover heat pack with barrier
- Have client take a deep breath in and place on area to be treated
- Leave for 10-20 min
- Check in often about temperature and monitor client comfort
How to perform paraffin wax?
- prepare area for dipping or painting the wax, clean
area needed - dip or paint up to 10 layers
- initial layer the widest or largest to set the “seal” of
the skin - wrap the area in plastic and then towels leave for 20
minutes - a heat source can be applied over the towel
- check in for comfort
- never return used wax to pot
What are the precautions of heat therapy?
- Use a barrier
- Circulatory diseases
- Sensory changes
What are the contraindications of hot hydrotherapy?
- Peripheral vascular diseases
- Allergies to heat
- Circulatory diseases
- Sensory loss
- Client laying on heat pack
- Specific treatments directly over the heart
Contrast Hydrotherapy
● use the physiological effects of both hot and
cold to enhance peripheral blood flow
● uses vasodilation and vasoconstriction to before
a vascular flush to the tissue in the area
● need sufficient difference in temperature to
make it effective
● guideline is 3:1 heat:cold
● can alter the use of heat and cold to allow
treatment of inflammatory tissue
