Access Walk-In Bathtubs for Elderly and Disabled http://www.accesstubs.com/blog - Direct Distributor of Walk-In Bathtubs for Costco US and Canada Stores Wed, 10 Mar 2010 17:43:54 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 en hourly 1 Walk-in Bathtubs and Medical Hydrotherapy http://www.accesstubs.com/blog/?p=5 http://www.accesstubs.com/blog/?p=5#comments Fri, 19 Feb 2010 21:02:29 +0000 admin http://www.accesstubs.com/blog/?p=5 If you (or a loved one) are facing a health or mobility challenge, you want to live independently and manage your health and pain challenges… don’t you? A walk-in bathtub (or appropriate safety tub, handicapped tub, slide-in tub, or transition tub) equipped with Medical Hydrotherapy™ will not only help you to bathe safely, but can actually offer life altering health benefits. An accessible walk-in bathtub with Medical Hydrotherapy™ will give you access to the seemingly miraculous powers of water therapy – right in your own home.

WHY? Because using Medical Hydrotherapy™ in the home will help treat the core causes of many life shortening illnesses and painful conditions. Regular use of Medical Hydrotherapy™ will greatly enhance digestion’ nutrient absorption’ skin hydration’ detoxification and virtually every aspect of better health for anyone facing degenerative, age or injury related conditions.

We all know that water is essential to life. The vast majority of our bodies are water (over 75% of our brain is composed of water). You may not be a doctor, but you certainly know how to use water as a pain reliever for sore muscles, to treat injuries, ice strains, and as a method of stress reduction. Whether that treatment is in the form of a hot soak, or a cold shower, and everything in between.

Recently there has been a dramatic swing in medical theory and a long overdue realization about “healing”. Recent studies have confirmed that many of the medications our society has become dependant on, primarily antibiotics and pain relievers, often do more harm than good. The best way to prevent, treat and in many cases cure illness and recover from injury is to give our body the right tools and let it go to work. An accessible or walk-in bathtub permits on-demand, in-home use of deep soaking Medical Hydrotherapy™.

What is Medical Hydrotherapy™?

In it’s simplest form, hydrotherapy can be described as the treatment of illness and injury through the use of water. This includes the use of both hot and cold water.

Medical Hydrotherapy™ adds the element of temperature appropriate and medically safe massage to the soaking process. This is important, for as with our tendency to use medications in the US, we have become singularly focused on water jetted and “hot tub” technologies as the only massage option. Even in walk-in bathtubs, re-circulated, heated water, or Jacuzzi systems, can be both unsafe and unhealthy to use, and are NOT Medical Hydrotherapy™

A walk-in bathtub with Medical Hydrotherapy™ makes you healthier in two ways:

1. Thermal Effects: Warm and cold baths in a deep soak walk-in bathtub create certain reactions in your body tissues that help lessen pain and discomfort and improve the healing process. Warm baths open up your capillaries (the small blood vessels in your body that are closest to tissues) which leads to increased blood flow and circulation, helping your body oxygenate and heal tissue better and get rid of toxins faster. Heat increases the production of beneficial body hormones, and stimulates the immune system.

2. Mechanical Effects: The gentle tingling sensation of warmed air bubbles and their energizing “whole body” massage in a walk-in bathtub creates beneficial chemical reactions in your skin and tissues. This leads to increased circulation, which helps oxygenate tissues and evacuate toxins. In water, your body weighs only 10% of its normal weight, so there is a large amount of physical stress removed from your joints and bones, helping to relive pain and discomfort. This partial weightlessness also helps relax the body, because muscles don’t have to work as hard to keep the body in position and are given a chance to relax.

Bottom-line – Medical Hydrotherapy™ made available when and as you need it, in your own home, by way of a walk-in bathtub, safety tub or appropriately engineered deep soaking tub, can literally be life altering. Maybe even a miracle. If you are in the home you hope to stay in, this investment in your health is a necessity, not a luxury. And if you have a health challenge, it will likely qualify as a medical expense. But you won’t know if you don’t seek information. I strongly encourage you to look into the options of a walk-in bathtub with Medical Hydrotherapy™ sooner, rather than later.

By George Bentley.

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Issues of bathing safety are common amongst elderly and disabled consumers. According to fall-prevention research, over 90% of all accidents happen during bathing due to slippery floors. Walk-In Bathtubs became the ultimate solution for consumers that are concerned with their bathing safety and accessibility. Besides accident prevention features such as side tub entrance, non-slippery floors, wide door openings and more, walk-in tubsalso offer luxury add-ons such as hydro therapy, air massage, chromo and aromatherapy.
So you have decided to spoil yourself with this luxurious, jetted walk-in tub but not sure what which model to choose? There are quite a few things that need to be taken into consideration before purchasing a walk-in tub. Throughout the last decade, vendors have been flooding the US market with imported walk-in bathtubs and other senior and handicapped bathing products. Unfortunately, a lot of these imports do not adhere to North American plumbing and safety standards. Thus, installing and servicing such product can be a painful process. Access Walk-In Bathtubs are made in United States and comply with all current plumbing guidelines, proving that our products are built with safety and comfort in mind. All our models come with a detailed installation manual to ease the process of placing and connecting your walk-in bathtub.
Another question consumers need to ask themselves before making a purchase is how they are going to place and connect their new walk-in bathtubs. Many vendors do not offer tubs that fit the standard 60-inch bathtub opening. Thus, you can expect to have an empty space that will need to be covered after installation. Access Tubs offers extension kits that come with every model that does not fully cover the standard opening. An extension kit consists of three panels that can cover the extra space left after installation.
Now that you have learned about quality and installation process let’s look at the price range. By conducting a simple price comparison we can see how an average walk-in bathtub can cost $4000-5000USD purchase depending on features you are looking to obtain. It’s becoming more common that the spread in price between a basic soaker and hydro or air walk-in bathtubs is over $2000. With Access Tubs, the price difference that our customers can expect will not exceed $1000. Dual-Feature models that combine hydro and air therapy are also available for as little as $3500-$4200USD.

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