Defining Hydrotherapy & Its Low-Cost Benefits for Health
Hydrotherapy has been a pillar in many naturopathic therapies for centuries. Modern science takes away the woo-woo and helps explain how something as simple as splashing water on your face can have a positive impact on your health.
Hydrotherapy is an ambiguous term that could technically be used to describe lots of things involving water. Swimming? hydrotherapy. Water Aerobics? Hydrotherapy. Splashing water on my face because I’m too lazy to take a shower? That’s not laziness — that’s hydrotherapy.
Defining Hydrotherapy
I believe consideration for some of the hydrotherapy’s moving parts can help develop a better working definition. When my interest in hydrotherapy was piqued I began reading through some clinical data and looking at the variables that researchers were observing. I figured this was as good a place as any to start building a working definition of hydrotherapy.
Water Temperature
Using different water temperatures can result in drastically different outcomes during hydrotherapy. Hot, cold, and room temperature waters can all be used to better achieve specific…
