WHEN NOT TO USE HOT THERAPY
DO NOT use hot therapy on patients with any of the following contraindications:
- History of heat injury or adverse reactions to hot therapy
- Incoherent due to sedation, anesthesia, coma or sleep
- Decreased skin sensitivity or localized circulation or wound healing problems
- Arteriosclerosis or atherosclerosis
- Abdomen of women who are pregnant
- Localized malignancy in treatment area
- Hypersensitivity to heat
- Local tissue infection, swelling or inflammation