Sauna baths on prescription
More and more doctors and researchers are raising the idea of prescribing sauna baths as part of healthcare.
A sauna a day – keeps the doctor away
Creative leisure – sauna bathing and health. By the Swedish Society of Haematology. Written by the Sauna Doctor Hans Hägglund.
Hot, warm or feverish
Recently the sauna's existence has been hotly debated in light of rising electricity prices and finite resources. When we sit down in the sauna we get warm, and because the body wants a constant temperature we begin to sweat, the surface blood vessels widen and the heart beats faster. "It is roughly the same effect as when we go out for a run," says Hans Hägglund, sauna doctor, senior consultant and professor.
Sauna baths on prescription
Listen to what the Sauna Doctor Hans Hägglund says on Sveriges Radio P4 Väst.
More sauna baths on prescription!
Physical activity such as walking, dancing and yoga is already prescribed as treatment within Swedish healthcare. "The next step would be to consider sauna baths," says the doctor and professor Hans Hägglund.
Even more sauna baths on prescription!
According to the doctor and sauna enthusiast Hans Hägglund, sauna bathing is good for both body and soul. He therefore believes that sauna on prescription is a possibility in the future.
