December 29, 2007

Healing & Relaxation Benefits Of Water Therapy

Water therapy has been used for healing, relaxation, pain management, and other medicinal purposes for thousands of years. Water therapy, also referred to as hydrotherapy, has been used to treat diseases and improve wound healing, circulation, digestion, and the immune system. Water therapy also has a soothing effect and calms the lungs, heart, stomach, and endocrine system by stimulating nerve reflexes on the spinal cord. Water therapy equipment is still in wide use today and we carry the most modern, scientifically tested and proven water therapy equipment on the market.
The use of water therapy can be traced all the way back to ancient China, Japan, India, Rome, Greece, the Middle East, and the Americas. There are even references to water therapy in the Old Testament of the Bible. By the 17th century, 0taking the waters0 at hot springs and spas became popular across Europe and eventually spread to the United States. However, it wasn0t until the 19th century that modern relaxation water therapy evolved in Europe with the development of spas for “water cure” ailments, ranging from anxiety to pneumonia to back pain. A Dominican monk by the name of Father Sebastian Kneipp is credited with raising public awareness of […]

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