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In the past, a fairly popular medical procedure Charcot shower is now gaining popularity again. However, in modern medicine, Charcot’s shower is more used in cosmetology in order to restore a clear outline to the figure and overcome such annoying cellulite. Also, this technique is often resorted to in the postpartum period, when it is necessary to tighten the body in many ways.
The French neuropathologist and psychiatrist Charcot came up with such a technique for treating a very wide range of diseases, supporting the human body in good shape. Jean Martin Charcot was not only a doctor, but also a scientist, so he thoroughly knew many of the nuances of the human nervous system and could clearly speak about what it needs for normal functioning.
When is a Charcot shower necessary?
There are a lot of indications for using Charcot’s soul. This procedure significantly improves blood circulation in the human body, strengthens the immune system, helps to treat arthritis and arthrosis, eliminates the manifestations of rheumatism and muscle weakness, helps restore impaired metabolism, eliminates pain syndromes of various origins, relieves tension and eliminates the effects of stress on the body.
A Charcot shower is a shock shower that uses several strong jets with different water temperatures – the temperature difference can range from 10 to 45 degrees, which is very sensitive for the human body. In this case, water jets act on a strictly limited area of the body that needs treatment.
Due to the strong temperature contrast, it is possible to achieve a significant therapeutic effect from Charcot’s shower. During the procedure, blood actively rushes to all tissues and organs, naturally, blood circulation accelerates, vascular conductivity improves, toxins are washed out of tissues, the cell tone of all organs grows, which cannot but affect the patient’s well-being in the most favorable way.
During the procedure, jets of water are directed at the patient from a distance of 3 to 3,5 meters. First, the body is treated with a fan type of jet in all planes, then the fan jets are replaced by directed four-atmospheric jets, which alternately treat the legs, sides, back, arms, problem areas of the body, such as the abdomen, thighs and buttocks. After the procedure, the skin becomes very red, which is due to the strong pressure of water jets and a sharp temperature drop.
During the initial session, the duration of the procedure should not exceed 1 minute; in subsequent sessions, the exposure time of Charcot’s shower gradually increases to 5 minutes. If Charcot’s shower is prescribed to the patient for the first time, then the course of his treatment will be 10 procedures, and with each subsequent repetition of therapy, the courses will increase to 15-20 procedures.
By analogy with reflexology, Charcot’s showers provoke regeneration and rejuvenation processes in the human body. When exposed to the body alternately hot and cold jets, the vascular system trains to quickly expand and narrow just as quickly, water pressure perfectly massages all problem areas, and the very essence of the water-based therapy helps to “wash out” nervous tension and depressive states.
During Charcot’s shower, all systems of the human body, especially the lymphatic and circulatory systems, are activated:
- there is an acceleration of metabolic processes;
- cellular nutrition of organs and skin is enhanced;
- there is a powerful cleansing of toxic substances and accumulated dirt.
These properties of the Charcot shower are widely used to combat such an annoying process as cellulite. It is also used in the elimination of obesity, foci of inflammatory processes and benign neoplasms.
Charcot’s shower is especially indicated for those people whose work is associated with constant and prolonged sitting at a table near computers. This technique helps relieve tension in the vertebral and spinal muscles, enhances blood circulation, disturbed by prolonged sitting at the table, eliminates headaches caused by oxygen starvation and prolonged heavy exertion.
Charcot’s shower is also used to combat the manifestations of diseases of the musculoskeletal zone. Ideally, with the help of this technique, such diseases should be prevented, since when they occur, treatment is sometimes very long and difficult.
If doctors use the Charcot shower technique to treat obesity, then it should definitely be supplemented with a special diet that will not allow fat to accumulate again in problem areas of the body. In the case of cellulite treatment, this technique is combined with physical activity and special cosmetics that maintain skin tone. There are times when Charcot’s shower can effectively influence gout patients and those suffering from various diseases of the internal organs.
In modern medicine, as well as more than a hundred years ago, Charcot’s shower is widely used to eliminate various mental and nervous disorders. It copes well with autonomic disorders, chronic fatigue syndrome, neurological pain syndromes and osteochondrosis. Also, the technique highly effectively helps with allergic reactions of the body, with problems with the vascular system, as well as with the organs of the gastrointestinal tract.
In order to prevent Charcot’s douche, it is used in sports medicine to relax the muscle tissue of athletes after hard training and competition. It is effective for preventive purposes after sports, fitness, yoga, aerobics, as it helps to restore strength, consolidate the results of physical exertion, relax the psyche and feel rested. If you use Charcot’s douche prophylactically 2-3 times a week, you can become more efficient, successful and emotionally stable.
Despite the fact that the Charcot shower technique is known today not only in medical institutions, but they are also offered to try it in various beauty salons and spa salons, it is better when it is prescribed by a hydrotherapist, who is more accurately able to calculate the duration of the session and course, as well as will help to correctly compose other accompanying elements of therapeutic effects on the body.
In order to obtain a cosmetic effect, you can use Charcot’s shower, but if you get a doctor’s consultation before that, the chance to weaken the manifestation of chronic diseases and not provoke the emergence of new ones increases. Most often, experts recommend alternating Charcot’s shower with herbal baths, baths with marine extracts and ethers, body wraps, masks, and various types of massage.
Contraindications and disadvantages of Charcot’s shower procedure
Charcot’s shower should be used to a limited extent for certain skin diseases and varicose veins, trying to track the direction of the jets during the technique and not spread them to the affected areas. But with obvious cardiovascular pathologies, such as a previous heart attack, hypertension or angina pectoris, as well as with fever, infectious diseases, tuberculosis, inflammatory processes of various etiologies, gastric and duodenal ulcers, renal anomalies, oncological diseases, benign tumors , a tendency to bleeding, mucosal lesions, psychosis and weeping eczema, it is categorically impossible to apply the technique. Also, do not use Charcot’s douche in any week of pregnancy.
After completing the course of Charcot’s shower procedures, you should repeat it again six months later. So the body will be constantly maintained in good shape, cellulite will not be deposited on the hips, and extra centimeters will melt without a trace. According to the reviews of many women who have used the Charcot shower technique at least once in their lives, during the course of therapy, body weight is significantly reduced and the waist, abdomen and hips are reduced in volume. The skin after Charcot’s shower is perfectly tightened, cellulite disappears, and an incredible lightness appears in the body.
However, in the course of the technique, significant disadvantages often arise both for the body and for appearance. The most pronounced shortcomings of Charcot’s soul are considered to be the severe pain of the procedure, as well as pronounced bruises after it. Doctors say that in the course of getting used to the efforts of water jets, soreness decreases, and bruises cease to form on the skin after 4-5 first sessions. However, it is worth remembering such disadvantages, especially in the summer, when many women try to put their body in order before the holidays, and as a result, they can get bluish skin, which is highly undesirable when exposed to the sun.