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2
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What is Hydrotherapy

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The Use of water in the treatment of disease.

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Where does hydrothermal therapy use its tempature effects?

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hot baths, saunas, wraps

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Examples of cultures that have used hydro and hydrothermal therapies?

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Rome, China, and Japan

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What ancient civilization used therapeutic baths?

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Greece

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What ingredient is important in traditional Chinese and Native American healing systems?

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Water

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Who helped repopularize the therapeutic use of water in the 19th century?

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Father Kneipp

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Examples of hydrotherapy

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baths, saunsas, douches, wraps, and packs

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The healing and recuperative properties of hydrotherapy are based on its what?

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FORMAT mechanical and/or thermal effects. It exploits the body’s reaction to hot/cold stimuli. Reacts to protracted application of heat, to pressure exerted by the water and to the sensation it gives.

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10
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The _______ carry impulses felt at the skin deeper inot the body, where they are instrumental in stimulating the ________, influencing the production of ____________, and:

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Nerves; Immune System; Stress Hormones; Invigorating the circulation and digestion, encouraging blood flow, and lessening pain sensitivity.

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Generally heat does what to the body

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soothes and qieuts, slowing down the activity of internal organs

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Cold generally does what to the body

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stimulated and invigorated, increasing internal activity

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what is hydrostatic effect

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the effect of water on the skin - giving a sense of massage while it stimulates touch receptors on the skin, boosting blood circulation

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What are hydrotherapy and hydrothermal therapy generally used for?

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tone up the boyd, stimulate digestion, the circulation, and the immune system, and to bring pain relief.

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How does water calm the lungs, heart, stomach, and endocrine system?

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By stimulating never reflexes on the spinal cord

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Greek “god” represented with serpent

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Aesculapius. 3000 BC.

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17
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What is current symbol of healing arts

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serpent

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18
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Greek “god” represented with serpent and drinking water

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Hygeia (Aesculapius’s daughter) - origin of the word Hygiene

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John Harvey Kellogg (1850-1943)

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FORMAT brought hydrotherapy to USA and brought to it a more scientific and legitimate foundation. Book: Rational Hydrotheraphy is definitve text on water therapy

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Father of Modern Medicine

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FORMAT. Hippocrates 500 BC. Cold baths and fomentations to heal patients

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What is a fomentation

A

moist heat

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22
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Water makes up what percentage of body weight?

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60-70%

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23
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What is thermal homeostasis

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heat regulation

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24
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Water we loose during a day:

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FORMAT. -2 cups thru respiration -2 cups thru perspiration -6 cups as excretions from intestines and kidneys.

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We gain water from:

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FORMAT. 3.5 cups form food ingested. .5 cups thru body metabolism

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26
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3 states of water

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Gas, Solid, Liquid

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What is the term used to describe the optimum stable condition of the healthy humna body. The energy required to keep a resting body alive.

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Homeostasis

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28
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What temp does water become ice

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32 F

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29
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what temp does water become vapor?

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212 F

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30
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What is the specific heat of water

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It takes 1 calorie of heat to raise 1 gram of water 1 C so the specific heat of water is 1

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31
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It is what that causes healing in hydrotherapy

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organism’s response to the application of heat or cold to the skin

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32
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What does our body need to maintain homeostasis

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negative feedback loops

33
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what is vasoconstriction

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the skin capillaries become narrower, to limit blood flow to the skin and keep the heat in our bodies

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What are the classes of physiological effects of water treatment

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FORMAT 1. Thermal 2. Mechanical 3. Chemical

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What is a thermal effect?

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obtained when we apply water at temperatures above or below the normal body temp

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What is a mechanicla effect?

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stimulation (water striking the body surface) as in whirlpools, douches, sprays, and frictions

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What is a chemical effect?

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interactions when used as an irrigation of a body cavity, as in colonic irrigation, enema, or vaginal douche

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what are 3 types of hydrostatic effect

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FORMAT 1. Local 2. Systemic 3. Reflexive

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What is local effect (hydrostatic)

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immediate response to an area that is being treated

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what is systemic effect (hydrostatic)

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Changes occur in functionaly related groups, in parts, oragn as a result of treatment but not limited to an area bieng treated

41
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what is reflexive effect (hydrostatic)

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effects occur elsewhere in the body through the NS

42
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What are the 3 properties of water

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Viscosity, Buoyancy, Hydrodynamic force

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What is viscosity

A

the resistance of liquid to flow

44
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what is buoyancy

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upward force that keeps things afloat

45
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what is hydrodynamic force

A

fluid flow

46
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what are dermatomes

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segments of nerves that come from the spinal column that corresponds to an area on the skin

47
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what is derivation

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the drawing of blood or lymph from one part of the body by increasing the amount of blood or lymph to another part

48
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what is retrostasis

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the drawing of blood or lymph from one area of the body

49
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what is a hydrocollator

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large steel container with hot water

50
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conduction

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a thermal energy exchange where physical contact between two surfaces occur

51
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convection

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energy transfer involving moving currents

52
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radiation

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an electromagnetci transfer of energy

53
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evaporation

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heat loss through perspiration and exhalation

54
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hydrostatic pressure

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the pressure exerted by water on an immersed body

55
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reflex heating

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affects the receptros in the skin to maintain core temp

56
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vasodilation

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the relaxation of blood vessels increasing blood flow

57
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hyperthermia

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elevated body temps

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vascular response

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initially vasoconstriction followed by vasodilation protecting the body from further injury

59
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basil metabolic rate

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the energy required to keep a resting body alive

60
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referred pain

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pain felt at a site wlesewhere from the source of disease or injury

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chronic

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a condition lasting months or even years

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contrandication

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a condition that would make treatment unadvisable

63
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gate control theory

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increased amounts of sensor fibers to the brain will block pain fibers

64
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effects of cold applicaiotn

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decreased metabolishm, increased muscle tonus

65
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effects of heat application

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increased pulse rate, peripheral vasodilation

66
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moist abdominal bandage

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a heat treatment that begins with a cold compress, use body heat for heat source and takes at least one hour

67
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Oldest known use of herbs in medicine

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1550 BC - Egyptians

68
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archimedes’ principle

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immersed body is lifted by a force equal to the weight of the liquid being replaced

69
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What is the origin of “Spa”

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1326 - Spa, Belgum mineral springs

70
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What are the classifications of spas?

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thermal, saline, gaseous, iron-bearing

71
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peloid

A

clay therapy

72
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helio

A

sun

73
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pain scale

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1 thru 10 (10 worst)

74
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Pain scale for relaxtion

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4 or 5 maybe a 6

75
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deep tissue pain scale

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6 or 7 up to 8

76
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a client’s threshold for pain _______ overtime (may)

A

evolve

77
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Pain Diagram

A

PAIN - SPASM-GUARDING - LOSS OF FUNCTION (TRAUMA IN CENTER)

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