Effect of Hot Spring Bathing upon Capillary Resistance
- VernacularTitle:泉浴と毛細管抵抗値
- Author:
Masataro HAGA
;
Yoshimasa YABE
;
Chaiseng CHIA
- Publication Type:Journal Article
- From:The Journal of The Japanese Society of Balneology, Climatology and Physical Medicine
1962;26(3-4):133-138
- CountryJapan
- Language:Japanese
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Abstract:
A few attempts were made to study the effect of Tamagawa hot spring bathing upon the capillary resistance in healthy subjects and patients with hypertension, rheumatoid arthritis and fibrositis.
The results may be summarized as follows:
1) The capillary resistance decreased more significantly in patients with hypertension and rheumatoid arthritis than in healthy persons, but there was no difference in capillary resistance between healthy persons and patients with fibrositis.
2) Similarly, single bathing showed a decrease in capillary resistance both in healthy subjects and patients immediately after bathing, but tended to return gradually to the pre-bathing value about 1 hour later.
3) Successive bathing clearly increased capillary resistance in patients with hypertension in whom the decrease of capillary resistance was apparent. Such tend was also observed in patients with rheumatoid arthritis. The variation in capillary resistance in them brought forth by single bathing gradually grew smaller in degree with progress of successive bathing and showed a tendency to be similar to that in healthy subjects.
No significant variation was observed in capillary resistance in healthy persons and patients with fibrositis.
4) It can be said from the results mentioned above that balneotherapy is very effective for the treatment of rheumatoid arthritis and hypertension.
