Showers used in balneotherapy

Therapeutic shower is one of the most pleasant and effective procedures in hydropathy. After just one session you will feel ease throughout your body and a surge of energy and strength. You will be prescribed a particular type of shower depending on your preferences and indications. Showers differ in the design of their cabins and heads as well as their effect on certain receptors and biologically active points of a body.

Therapeutic showers help to strengthen your immune system, shape your body, relieve pain and cramps, they have a calming and relaxing effect. Yessentuki mineral waters can replace fresh water to enhance the healing effect of some types of showers. Procedures take place in a comfortable and cozy environment. A diet, exercise therapy and instrumental physiotherapy enhance the effectiveness of balneotherapy.

Our Sanatorium offers the following types of therapeutic showers:

  • Circular shower is one of the most universal ones. It is called a needle shower because a person standing in the cabin is affected by thin trickles of water under pressure, slightly tingling his/her body.
  • Charcot douche is a type of therapeutic shower in which a patient is standing in a special cabin, and water jets of different pressures are directed at the person from a distance of 3-4 meters, creating a massage effect. The water temperature decreases from +36 °C to +25 °C during the session.
  • Vichy shower is a type of hydromassage. Numerous water jets carry out an acupuncture massage that stimulates important points of the body.
  • Rising shower is a urogynecologic shower which is taken on a special chair with a ring-shaped seat. Warm water at a certain pressure is fed through the mesh head.
  • Underwater shower-massage is a procedure in which a specialist directs a water jet under pressure at a patient’s body in a bath. The technique of underwater shower-massage is chosen individually, taking into account the nature of the condition and individual characteristics of the body, as well as presence of related diseases and complications.