What is Spa? Part 1

Some believe that it just the name of the tiny Belgian small village located in the foothills of the most beautiful Ardennes. This place in the Middle Ages became famous for the healing waters. The first they were estimated by the French and Belgian soldiers who periodically were at enmity with each other, and minutes of rest restored forces under hot streams of this thermal source. Soldiers should have spent several hours in a mineral source, and they were ready to go into battle with new forces again. Well and, of course, over time the small Belgian town of Spa turned into the resort. From here also SPA as a complex of "water-based" improving procedures appeared. By the way, this resort is known already during two thousand years, and its hot springs also became prototypes of hydromassage pools.

There is also other version, it is more ancient. Once, when the emperor Neron walked on the park and once again, having been lost in contemplation of the fountain, exclaimed: "SANITAS PAR AQUAS" that is translated as "water - a health source". The abbreviation of this phrase (SPA) gave the name to the whole improving direction subsequently.

Now SPA, first of all, are high quality resort hotels which combine also tourist hotel and sanatorium. In such hotels there have to be pools with a full set of hydromassage procedures, saunas, baths, gyms. That is at the heart of SPA – water and only water, any contact with water bears in themselves calm and a pacification, water is capable to extend all negative from the person, including also thoughts.

The main advantage of SPA - influence not on any one body, and on an organism in general. It needs to be remembered and it needs to be known. Treatment of a body leads to "treatment of soul": to disposal of stresses, overfatigue, insomnia and depressions. The philosophy of SPA can be characterized the well-known proverb: "A sound mind in a sound body".

The SPA procedures are most often the HYDROMASSAGE. Heat, zero gravity and massage, working together, restore vital forces and promote improvement of an organism. And immersion in hot water increases body temperature and improves blood circulation. Weight reduction in water almost significantly reduces load of joints and muscles by 90%. It in turn causes pleasant effect of zero gravity. Action of a hydromassage (the directed water jet and air) consists in relaxation of the clamped muscles and synthesis of endorphins – the natural boleutolitel who are giving rise to feeling of pleasant rest and pleasure. Several minutes of such SPA procedure bear in itself a cheerfulness charge for the whole day. And, on the contrary, the evening hydromassage guarantees a deep and quiet sleep.

To be continued …