Spa water, with its anti-inflammatory and analgesic properties cannot be beaten when it comes to rehabilitation. What is essential is the psychological security of moving in water, without the danger of falling.
Hydrokinesis therapy is a complete treatment performed in thermal water together with the therapist. In this way, the traditional mobilization techniques can be associated with the muscle-relaxing and analgesic properties of the thermal water. Recovery is quicker, safer and more stable, guaranteeing long-lasting results.
At the Hydrokinesis Center, you will find a special and exclusive pool designed by a team of experts in thermal water rehabilitation. Easily accessible to people with mobility difficulties and disabilities, thanks to the various water depths that it features, this pool meets all rehabilitation, sports and wellness requirements. Physiotherapists, personal trainers and motor science graduates are highly specialized in the use of this underwater gym, thus obtaining extraordinary results in a short time.
The center is also equipped with two smaller therapeutic pools that are reserved for individual therapist-client treatment. They were designed to meet the needs of patients requiring treatment in a private environment due to their particular conditions. They are essential when the therapist is in the presence of particularly demanding pathologies or to guarantee maximum privacy.
In the large pool and in the two individual pools each treatment is monitored by a custom designed video recording system that allows the patient to self-correct his/her movement in the water, performing the prescribed therapy effectively.
The rehabilitation treatment performed to restore circulation and lymphatic efficiency in the lower limbs takes place using a particular type of walk through spa water in a series of pools featuring different depths and temperatures. Indeed, in the Kneipp path, exercises are performed and the patient walks against the flow to address circulation problems.
It is a very important phase of a rehabilitation protocol. It foresees complex work both on the recovery of muscle strength and joint mobility, but mainly dependent on the proprioceptive system to control balance during movement: the aim is to fully restore the functionality of the area affected by the trauma.
The proprioceptive stimulation of a traumatized joint aims to create a situation of progressive and controlled instability in order to reactivate and recover the efficiency of control mechanisms specialized in the neuro-muscular response (proprioceptors), present in large numbers in the capsular and ligament structures and often damaged by the trauma and its consequences (edema, hypomobility, pain, etc.).
It is used in motor rehabilitation to restore full efficiency and functionality to the damaged area, in the shortest time possible. This technique allows the patient to benefit from the results obtained and modify his/her actions to make it comfortable.
Biofeedback is a piece of equipment used by the therapist, in synergy with traditional techniques, when the objective is to obtain full and effective motor rehabilitation.
It can be used in various ways:
Laser therapy bases its therapeutic effect on the action of photochemical and photobiological stimulation induced in tissues by the luminous impulse. Cells damaged by inflammatory, traumatic or degenerative causes, when stimulated by the laser tend to recharge their energy and reset back to the primary physiological function.
Treatment should be as early as possible and has to be personalized by the physician, in the treatment of a wide range of diseases, in sports traumatology, in arthro-rheumatic diseases and articular motor rehabilitation.
In the mud-balneotherapy treatments used to treat osteoarticular ailments, thermic energy applied in cycles on the whole body by mature mud compresses or by a bath in spring water, activates stimulating mechanisms on the cellular metabolism and participates significantly to the therapeutic final action. In some cases, though, a more localized heat action is necessary, particularly when limited local areas must be treated intensively.
The application of heat through the innovative technique of ‘hyperthermia’ is more strict and effective; it uses two sources of heat (one to heat deep tissues, the other to cool the external skin layers), allowing a more selective and effective action, above all in posttraumatic pathologies in a subacute phase.
Psoriasis is a skin disorder that is most commonly treated with significant results in Thermal spas, especially as a complementary method when the patient suspends therapeutic practices or as support for specific medical therapies.
Associating thermal balneotherapy with UVB ray phototherapy (thermal balneo-phototherapy) is proving to be an innovative technique. The results of this particular combination of natural treatments lead to significant skin improvement often with the damage disappearing for extended periods. Our Hydrokinesis program combines balneotherapy in spa water from the Hydrokinesis spring (particularly rich in selenium and bromides) with phototherapy (UVA and narrow band UVB stand-up solarium).
The skin’s active absorption of the minerals with anti-inflammatory and anti-oxidizing characteristics at the cellular infiltrate level is, thus, associated with the active remission of the psoriasis plaque induced by the narrow band UVBs. Physical activity in the Hydrokinesis pool, therapeutic body massages with emollient products and if necessary, mud therapy for bones and joints ailments complete the treatment.
Neuro-Muscular Taping (NMT) is a method that uses biomechanical stimuli to achieve beneficial effects on the muscoloskeletal, vascular, lymphatic and nervous systems, pursuing clinical and rehabilitative purposes.
Everything is based on the application of special adhesive tape that by forming skin folds (depending on the degree of tension with which they are applied) and thanks to body movement, facilitates lymphatic drainage, promotes blood vascularization, reduces pain and improves the range of muscular-articular movement and consequently posture.
In rehabilitation, it is used to treat various disorders (Orthopedic, Neurological and Lymphangiological Neuro-muscular Taping), often in combination with traditional rehabilitation methods, making it possible to reduce rehabilitation time and improve patient’s quality of life.
The mobilization apparatus allows passive movement of the knee and hip articulations; its use is an effective and important part of therapeutic medical treatment. Its aim is, above all, to avoid lesions during immobilization, to regain articular mobility quickly and painlessly and thus favor swift healing accompanied by good functional results.
Equipment used under the guidance of experienced staff for the prevention and treatment of muscoloskeletal imbalances related to poor posture or muscolo-tendinous retractions.
The principal mechanism underlying this technique is the general, nonanalytical lengthening of muscle chains through correct posture, thus avoiding ‘compensation’ i.e. activating those defense mechanisms our body uses to reduce pain and muscle spasms.
Pancasix has proven to be highly effective on posture issues, cervical pain, lumbago or back pain, herniated disks, disorders in the temporo-mandibular joint (TMJ), osteoarthritis of the hip, knee and spine, and shoulder pain.
The combined use of this method with mud bath therapy, thermal spa hydrokinesis therapy, and functional rehab, makes it possible for our guests, in a short time, to achieve and continue to experience the benefits, over a long period of time, of treatment for all degenerative issues affecting joints (arthritis) or functional issues (postural defects, dysmorphism, and pain in general).
Training sessions with our Personal Trainers allow reaping maximum benefits from one’s personalized program or tailoring it to suit personal training goals. An infinite range of activities is on offer, each one tailored to suit the individual’s requirements: muscle toning, fitness circuit, aqua fitness, aerobic circuit in the gym, stretching, postural and back exercises. Sessions can be 25 or 50-minute in length.
One of the main aims of professional athletes is keeping the body in shape even between competitions, both at the beginning of the season so as to be ready for the seasons appointments, and also at the end in order to get rid of the fatigue of an intense period of activity.
Active prevention of sport traumas is advised by sports medicine specialists for all those who believe regular physical activity prolongs health and well-being.
Today, keeping in shape is possible using a correct recovery program, safe and personalized according to needs. Young sportspeople and the not so young with muscular lesions as well as with knee shoulder, and ankle traumas, or with initial degenerative disorders to the cartilage or post-operative surgery will find Idrokinesis® the ideal place where to perform personalized rehabilitative treatment, athletic movement and sports activity recovery. Rehabilitation programs that can be carried out a few days after traumas or muscoloskeletal surgery are readily available.
