Background. WATSU (WaterShiatsu) is a complementary therapeutic treatment method comprising passive stretches and massage techniques administered in 35°C warm water. Pregnant women claim safe methods to reduce pain, stress, and fatigue. Therefore, we conducted a pilot study evaluating the effects of WATSU on pregnancy-related complaints in third trimester pregnant women. Methods. Nine healthy p...

About 90% of the time, allergies manifest themselves in horses as hives. When they flare up, the vet will often prescribe antihistamines and/or corticosteroids to combat them. Sometimes antihistamines work to reduce the severity of the hives, yet many times cannot resolve them completely. Corticosteroids, on the other hand, work exquisitely to make hives disappear within hours. Cold-water thera...

1. A prospective study has been carried out, and 68 patients with hypercholesterolaemia have been investigated to study the effects of central cooling on serum lipid levels. 2. Central cooling was obtained by the exposure of the whole body to cold water. All patients were trained to gradually reduce the water temperature from 22 to 14 degrees C and to increase the time of exposure from 5 to 20 ...

BACKGROUND The quantities of Legionella vary considerably from natural waters to water in contaminated domestic hot water supplies, whirlpool spas and cooling towers, with the risk for LD rising as the Legionella counts grow. We currently report the results from our Quantitative Microbial Risk Assessment (QMRA) model evaluation. We developed the LD QMRA model to better understand Legionella exp...

therapeutic and Massage Department, the buildings of which have been provided by public subscription and the equipment by Sir Alexander and Lady Bicket. In so doing he was continuing the good work of his family, for it was his grandfather who laid the foundation-stone of the hospital in 1867. The new department is furnished with whirlpool, aerated, paraffin-wax and other baths, where over one h...