Types of hot packs Commercially available hot packs

Fluidotherapy y y y Artristis inflammation, joint pain, muscle spas, hypersensitive tissues CRPS Sickle cell anema

Benefits y y y y y No loss in heat over treatment time Machine allows movement during use Can be used over wounds lesions Safe to use with splints, banadages, table, metal implants, plastic joint replacemtns Exerices equipment can be used during treatmenet

Precautions Edema Dismished sesnsation Compromised circulation Use of anti cog Contrindications y y Impaired sesnsation Tumors, cancers

Research Effect of fluidotherapy on skin temperature and sensory nerve conducation y Most effective treatment was fluidotherapy heat with tactile stimulation vs tactile simulation alone to increase skin temp and decrease latency in the sensory nerve action potentials

Effects of FT on managing apin in pt with sickle cell anemia

Two thirty min FT treatment per day increase range of motion reduced pain and reduce need for morphine in pt who were originally nonambulatory and in severe pain