Hydrotherapy Treatments

Video Transcript

"Hello, my name's Rebecca Herrick. I'm a massage therapist in Wilmington, North Carolina. And, I'm here to talk about what is hydrotherapy treatment? Hydrotherapy treatment can be incorporated into many different modalities of massage and body work therapy. And basically, it is the use of water in some form, for therapeutic reasons. For example, if you use heated water, it helps to increase circulation to the muscles, and help increase flexibility, and things like that. If you use water, in it's ice form, it helps to decrease circulation to an area, which is greatly used in the treatment of inflammation. So, water being used in those "twof", two different forms, is typically, used the term hydrotherapy. There's also hydrotherapy used a lot in physical therapy, in the forms of whirlpools and saunas, and, just heated water, and things like that. Hydrotherapy can even be used as a term for using hot stone therapy. If you use the hot, the, you soak the stones in the warm water, that's heating the stones, and using the water as your medium. And that would be the use of hydrotherapy treatment."