Hemodynamic Change after Half Body Bathing in Patients with Cardiovascular Risk Factor.
- Author:
Won Ihl RHEE
1
;
Nam Seok SEONG
;
Go Woon KIM
Author Information
1. Department of Rehabilitation Medicine, College of Medicine, The Catholic University of Korea, Korea. rm@catholic.ac.kr
- Publication Type:Original Article
- Keywords:
Half body bathing;
Cardiac rehabilitation;
Systemic thermal therapy
- MeSH:
Baths*;
Blood Pressure;
Cardiovascular Diseases;
Heart;
Heart Rate;
Hemodynamics*;
Humans;
Rehabilitation;
Risk Factors*;
Skin
- From:Journal of the Korean Academy of Rehabilitation Medicine
2005;29(6):647-653
- CountryRepublic of Korea
- Language:Korean
-
Abstract:
OBJECTIVE: Nowadays half body bathing (H-bath) became popular with increasing interests of health and well-being. H-bath is expected to be beneficial and safe as well as conventional whole body bathing (W-bath). However, there has been no formal report on the safety and effectiveness of H-bath. Therefore, this study tried to evaluate and compare the cardiovascular response during H-bath and W-bath in patients with or without cardiovascular disease. METHOD: 17 subjects with at least one cardiovascular risk factor and 15 subjects without any cardiovascular risk factor took H-bath while 22 healthy control group without any cardiovascular risk factor took W-bath. Changes of skin and oral temperature as well as hemodynamic responses (systolic blood pressure, diastolic blood pressure, heart rate) were measured. RESULTS: Increasing of systolic blood pressure and heart rate in H-bath was statistically lowered compared to W-bath as time goes by in bathing (p<0.05). There were no significant difference in patients with and without cardiovascular disease. CONCLUSION: Heart rate, temperature, systolic blood pressure showed a more gradual increase during H-bath than during W-bath. We propose that H-bath could be a more safe and compliant method of cardiac rehabilitation in patients with cardiovascular disease.
