Hot Coil
SYN: Winternitz coil
GKA
from Dr GK Abbott's Prescriptions...
Same as Cooling Coil but with hot water
Peptogenics
Not as used as Cooling Coil for poor digestion
A coil of rubber tubing 25-30cm in diameter with hot water flowing through it
- bed is covered with a dry blanket then a doubled sheet, wrung from ice water, to wrap around the trunk
- the patient lies prone, one side of the sheet is wrapped tightly around the chest and abdomen
- place coil on abdomen over sheet, the other end is then wrapped around trunk over the coil
- wrap patient well in blanket
- send a small amount of 57°C water through coil from centre outwards
- continue 30min- 3hrs for very slow, poor digestion
- Hot Water Bottle 58-60°C may be used in place of coil
Hydrotherapy Techniques:
Local Applications
Compresses and Packs
- Abdominal Heating Compress
- Alternate Compress
- Cold Compress
- Cooling Compress
- Cooling Coil
- Dry Abdominal Bandage
- Evaporating Compress
- Fomentations
- Graduated Compress
- Head Alternate Applications
- Head Pack
- Heating Compress
- Heating Trunk Pack
- Hot Coil
- Hot Compress
- Hot Water Bottle
- Ice Bag
- Ice Cap
- Ice Collar
- Ice Compress
- Irrigated Compress
- Mustard Fomentation
- Neutral Compress
- Proximal Compress
- Revulsive Compress
- Scotch Compress
- Simultaneous Hot and Cold to Head
- Spinal Alternate Applications
- Spinal Pack
- Thermophore
- Wet Girdle