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Hydrotherapy, formerly called hydropathy and also called water cure, [1] is a branch of alternative medicine (particularly naturopathy), occupational therapy, and physiotherapy, that involves the use of water for pain relief and treatment. The term encompasses a broad range of approaches and therapeutic methods that take advantage of the ...
] The history of hydrotherapy goes back as far as ancient Greece, but it was made popular by the Romans, who introduced the benefits of bathing and massage to the countries they conquered. Roman public baths were always recognized as a great source of relaxation, where members of high society and all free people could enjoy the benefits of hot ...
James Manby Gully in the 1860s "Hydropathy". Caricature by Spy published in Vanity Fair in 1876.. James Manby Gully (14 March 1808 – 27 March 1883) [1] was a Victorian medical doctor, well known for practising hydrotherapy, or the "water cure".
As hydrotherapy became more widely accepted, his opponents became more concerned with his exact methods than the overall practice, finding Priessnitz's treatments far too extreme and taxing on the body. The food offered at the spa was also notoriously bad-tasting and unhealthy. One visitor complained about being served "veal 10 days old."
Kneipp in 1890. Sebastian Kneipp (17 May 1821 – 17 June 1897) was a German Catholic priest and one of the forefathers of the naturopathic movement. He is most commonly associated with the "Kneipp Cure" form of hydrotherapy (often called "Kneipp therapy" or "Kneippism" [1] [2]), the application of water through various methods, temperatures and pressures, which he claimed to have therapeutic ...
Trall was an advocate of a system known as "hygeiotherapy", a mixture of hydrotherapy with diet and exercise treatment regimes that included fresh air, hygiene and massage. [9] It almost disappeared by his death in 1877 but was revived by Sebastian Kneipp in the 1890s. [9]
Ben Rhydding Hydro c. 1861 Racket Court at Ben Rhydding c. 1861. The Victorian history of hydrotherapy in the UK is traced back to Richard Tappin Claridge, an asphalt contractor and captain in the Middlesex Militia, who published and lectured in the early 1840s on an approach to the supposed curative properties of water developed by Vincenz Priessnitz in Gräfenberg (now Lázně Jeseník ...
Frank H. Krusen was a pioneer of physical medicine, which emphasized the use of physical agents, such as hydrotherapy and hyperbaric oxygen, at Temple University and then at Mayo Clinic and it was he that coined the term 'physiatry' in 1938. Rehabilitation medicine gained prominence during both World Wars in the treatment of injured soldiers ...