Sauna or Hot Tub

Do you have a fitness center near you with a sauna and hot? Maybe you could get a week free pass (usually on line)? That way you could try them yourself to find out which you like.

hi Rena,

I have a hot tub....ahhh relief.  that's the only time i can make a fist with my right  hand, that's in the hot tub.  i keep the water about 104...a sauna just makes you sweat.  a hot tub with jets massages too...my bet would be for the hot tub..

I would definitely recommend the hot tub. It eases a lot of the pain away (temporarily only, but still no pain for a few minutes is fantastic).  A sauna will just make you sweat.

 

Good luck!

HOTTUB HOTTUB HOTTUB!!!!!!!    We bought ours online at Costco.  It's only a two person one but it's our therapy tub.  I have OA, RA, and fibro and this thing is a life saver.  My husband gets in it too.  He has fibro and myofascial pain syndrome and needs it after working in the yard for a bit.  He is on disability and I'm trying for it.  Waiting for my time when I get a date/time assigned to see DA JUDGE.

 

Ahh the soak, soothing relaxing. Ours is in the garage.  I like to put soothing music on, incense or a candle, turn the light on the hot tub on and garage light off and I'm gone!!!!

 

It feels soooooo good.  

I would try them out to see what works better.  But for me, a hot bath is amazing, where suana's actually worsen my joints and pain.  I think it has something to do with the change in humidity or moisture, rather than just hot/cold temps. 

 

But defo try them both out before forking out the money!!!  You may find just the opposite for your body?

The idea of using a sauna originates from countries like Finland, as you probably know. What most of us do not know, is, how it is intended to use. Only then I can highly recommend it for people suffering from RA.

 

A really hot sauna has to be alternated with dipping into ice water, in order to 'massage' the vascular system repeatedly - expansion (serious heat)- contraction (serious cold). A cold shower does nothing even close to the desired effect, hence most saunas here in the US are just tiresome and even damaging with many diseases.

 

Treating RA with a 'real' sauna experience invigorates and resets the endocrine system. It resets your corpus callosum and allows the brain to recognize RA all over again. Re-recognizing allows the brain to re-set, repair, or, at least, allows the body to do as much self repair as possible.

 

This way, I highly recommend sauna with RA. At least once a week!

My friends have a sauna in their back yard - complete with a claw-foot-bath tub which they fill with frozen blocks of ice. They make their own ice by filling up big tupper ware containers and stock up a small freezer in the garage. Those freezers are not very expensive, either.

 

Snow works real well and makes a nice change indeed. Unlike the US -  Finland is consistently snowed in!! For Rheumatoid Arthritis I recommend: easy, cost efficient and short preparation, in order to utilize your new sauna to the max. It takes 20 min to heat it up and a few minutes to fill the bathtub. My friend says, she has been "addicted" to this type of sauna for 20 some years, she does it 3-4 times a week!!! As a side note: she is also slim and has no cellulite!!, very fit, very healthy. She is my inspiration !!

 

Thanks for asking. Let us know what you decide to do.