Hydrotherapy: Tool for preventing illness

Preventing heat-related illness among agricultural workers.

Hyperthermia from exertion and environmental conditions during agricultural work manifests itself by various symptoms and may lead to death. From 1992 through 2006, 68 workers employed in crop production and related services died from heat-related illness. The crop worker fatality rate averaged 4 heat-related deaths per one million workers per year-20 times higher than the 0.2 rate for US civil...

The way forward for hydrotherapy.

Preventing Sports Injury and Illness: Key Resources for Family Physicians.

In the United States, there are 212.6 million physically active persons older than six years (eFigure A), including 36 million youths and 7.8 million high school sports participants at approximately 36,000 secondary schools.1-4 Although physical activity clearly improves health outcomes, it also carries inherent risks, including injury, illness, and, rarely, death. Although a small percentage o...

Hydrotherapy and Physiotherapy

Retrograde commercial colonic hydrotherapy.

OBJECTIVE To ascertain the current practice of commercial colonic hydrotherapy in the UK and to collect data on the profiles of both the practitioners and their clients. In addition to understand how colonic hydrotherapy is perceived by those who use it and how much economic benefit it generates for the practitioners. Information as to training and complications was sought. PATIENTS AND METHO...