Water cures progress in different ways according to the therapeutic orientations and the resorts. Most of the care are made in the morning, according to a schedule established with the thermal doctor. The care are separated by rest periods, the afternoons are free. Thermal spas supply plenty of activities and animations to occupy the spare time, some of them are sports, cultural or gastronomic events... Below is a catalog of the thermal practices. Some are practised in all the resorts, the others are specific. The guests are always assisted by professional people, hostesses, physiotherapists, nurses, agents of care, etc.
 

whirlpool baths:
These are pure thermal baths, with streams of bubbles. They relax muscles and encourage drainage in the lower limbs.

drinking cure: it is only drinking the thermal water, warmed or not, in quantities prescribed by the doctor. These waters are distributed in refreshment rooms by a hostess, in a gradual tumbler generally offered by the spa.

illutations: they are the application of a mud made from a mixture of clays, warmed, loaded with ions by contact with the thermal water. This mud is spread over the painful limb and kept several minutes before being rinsed.

gargle : application in the throat of warmed thermal water which we do not swallow.

inhalations or vaporium : cold or warm, they are made in rooms saturated by mineral steam, who spread in the atmosphere beneficial gases intended to be inhaled

sound sprays : by the contribution of infrasonic vibrations, the spray is spread towards sine

wash of the nasal pits and the sine  

bronchial drainage and "clapping" : this technique facilitates the expectoration of the bronchi. This treatment is practised by a physiotherapist

massages : individual or collective physiotherapy practised by professionals; the massages can be done under water affusion

shower: jet or high pressure,the showers are very effective on neuralgia and on the aftereffects of traumatism

walking against the current: walking in water corridors designed to exert on the movement a calculated resistance. This exercise brings a relief in the disorders of circulation, and helps solving the problems of overweigh

Psychotherapy: sessions with a psychologist make it possible to better manage the handicap, or to learn how to disaccustom pathogenic behaviors.