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热、冷疗法（Heat and cold therapy） The eighth chapter is hot and cold therapy Cold and hot therapy: the use of substances below or above the body temperature, in a variety of ways to act on the part of the body or the whole body to prevent and treat diseases. Section 1 heat therapy I. overview of heat therapy Heat therapy is a simple, economical, safe and effective method of physiotherapy. As early as ancient times, human beings discovered the phenomenon that pain can be alleviated by heat. With the development of science and technology, people begin to study the principle of thermotherapy, and confirm the effect of heat on the peripheral vessels and the large vessels of the abdominal cavity. In the treatment of wax, mud therapy has been widely used in the major hospitals and nursing area. (1) the role of thermotherapy 1. promote the dissipation or limitation of inflammation 2. relieve pain 3. relieve deep tissue congestion 4. promote wound healing 5. warmth and comfort (two) the contraindication of heat therapy 1. early stage of soft tissue injury (within 48 hours) 2. acute abdomen without prior diagnosis 3. facial triangle infection 4., blood diseases have bleeding tendency 5., the treatment site of malignant tumors 6. metal grafts are present at the treatment site 7. bacterial conjunctivitis Two, the effect of heat treatment (I) physiological effects A table of 138 pages (two) secondary effects in a certain period of time for heat, can cause the expansion of blood vessels, but continued for 1 hours after the thermal expansion, it will cause vascular contraction, this phenomenon is called the secondary effect of heat (Secondary effect). (three) remote effects When a part of the body is heated, the thermal effect is not limited to the site, produce vasodilation reaction, can cause blood vessels adjacent to the site of expansion through nerve reflex, if the heat is stronger, will make further site effect vasodilatation, this phenomenon is the body of sympathetic reaction