Modern hydrotherapy for the massage therapist
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Philadelphia :
Wolters Kluwer Health/Lippincott Williams & Wilkins ,
c2008
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| Series: | LWW massage therapy & bodywork educational series
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| Subjects: | |
| Online Access: | Table of contents only |
Table of Contents:
- Introduction to hydrotherapy
- The science of water
- Effects of hydrotherapy
- Preparing to give hydrotherapy treatments
- Hot packs, fomentations, compresses, and other local heat applications
- Cold packs, compresses, and ice massage: local cold applications
- Immersion baths
- Hot air baths
- Showers
- Body wraps
- Friction treatments
- Hydrotherapy self-treatments for health and wellness
- Hydrotherapy and massage for musculoskeletal injuries
- Hydrotherapy and massage for noninjury conditions.