is the use of water to treat diseases, alleviate pain, induce recreation and maintain general good health.
For therapeutic purposes, the water maybe hot or cold or in the form of ice or steam. Treatments include immersion baths usually in cool water, hot tub soaks, sitz bath (shortened hip bath) steam baths, needle showers, salt rubs, pressure hosing, hot or cold packs, douches and colonic irrigation (washing of the inner wall of the large intestine) Hydrotherapy may also take the form of drinking water that has special qualities such as mineral waters offered by the European spas as an aid to digestion.
Be aware, hydrotherapy is important in physical therapy and rehabilitation medicine.
Precaution:
Pregnant women and people who heve diabetes, high blood pressure or any chronic coronary condition should avoid hot tubs, steam baths and saunas.
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