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Negative side effects of gua sha range from minor ones – including dermatitis, burns and blood in the urine – to rare major effects including bleeding in the brain and severe injuries requiring skin grafts. [5] The use of hospital standards of sterilization and personal protective equipment is important to prevent infections. Although no ...
Hot water immersion, also known as hot water therapy, involves fully or partially immersing yourself in hot water (by sitting in a hot tub, for example). “It’s used more for muscle relaxation ...
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 ...
Thalassotherapy (from the Greek word thalassa, meaning "sea") is the use of seawater as a form of therapy. [1] It also includes the systematic use of sea products and shore climate. [ 2 ] There is no scientific evidence that thalassotherapy is effective.
Aquatic therapy encompasses a broad set of approaches and techniques, including aquatic exercise, physical therapy, aquatic bodywork, and other movement-based therapy in water (hydrokinesiotherapy). Treatment may be passive, involving a therapist or giver and a patient or receiver, or active, involving self-generated body positions, movement ...
Samples taken from the roughly 50-foot-long oak hull, which lies under about 75 feet of water, were subjected to dendrochronological analysis, a technique for dating trees based on their rings.
Balneotherapy (Latin: balneum "bath") is a method of treating diseases by bathing, a traditional medicine technique usually practiced at spas. [1] Since ancient times, humans have used hot springs, public baths and thermal medicine for therapeutic effects. [2]
Nature therapy, sometimes referred to as ecotherapy, forest therapy, forest bathing, grounding, earthing, Shinrin-Yoku or Sami Lok, is a practice that describes a broad group of techniques or treatments using nature to improve mental or physical health. Spending time in nature has various physiological benefits such as relaxation and stress ...