PDHPE HSC ASSESSMENT TASK 3
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HYDROTHERAPY
* WHAT IS HYDROTHERAPY
Hydrotherapy is the method or a form of physiotherapy that utilizes water to refresh, sustain, and refurbish the health condition. Hydrotherapy therapeutics consist of saunas, steam baths, foot baths, sitz baths, as well as the applying of chilly and hot water dressings.
* BRIEF HISTORY OF THE HYDROTHERAPY
Hydrotherapy which is also known by the previous civilizations as the water therapy, water cure, balneotherapy and hydrothermal therapy is supposed to have arose in the 5th century B.C. as soon as the Greek general practitioner Hippocrates ,who was known as the Father of Medicine ,initially recognized its forms and methods. This was further carried on and practised by a 19th century Bavarian monk, well-liked to be the father of hydrotherapy, Sebastian Kneipp. Kneipp thought that the sickness could easily be healed by the use of water to remove rummage (dirt or waste) from the individual’s body. The word itself is acquired as of the prefix hydro, which means water, and includes the curative use of water at whichever temperature or shape, constituting ice packs, aerosols and hot steam baths.
Prehistoric Chinese, Egyptian, Greek and Roman folkways advanced to cite the remedial uses of hydrotherapy. Every one of them added additional alterations to the run through of hydrotherapy, some of which are still used in the present time. In Greece, Hippocrates encouraged bathing in spring water whereas the ancient Rome built common public baths for the idea of promoting physical condition and wellness and the Egyptians alleged that adding up scented oils and flower essences would assist in the healing procedure. Since the practices transformed and expanded, therapeutic records sustained to reproduce the healing advantages of hydrotherapy.
* NATURE/METHODS USED FOR HYDROTHERAPY
The curative manners of hydrotherapy are depended