Soak feet with warm water is a combined therapy method of thermotherapy and hydrotherapy that works to release istamine bradykinin. The bradykinin causes vasodilation blood vessels. purpose the study: identify effect soaking on lowering pressure. Method:This research quantitative systematic review method. design used was Randomized Controlled Trials (RCT) 9 studies.Results:Obtained from studies...

This new edition of a well-known book has been thoroughly revised and brought up-to-date in accordance with the rapid advances made in this department of medicine during the Great War. The book in its present form is divided into five sections, vis., thermotherapy, hydrotherapy, massotherapy (including medical gymnastics), the rest cure, electrotherapeutics, and dieto-therapy. A new chapter has...

I n t e r v e n t i o n Patients were allocated to bed rest (n = 84), physiotherapy (n = 83), or continuation of ADLs (n = 83). Bed rest could be done at home or in the hospital and lasted 7 days. Physiotherapy sessions were scheduled twice weekly for 4 to 8 weeks and involved segmental mobilization, disc unloading and loading exercises, and hydrotherapy. Patients in the continuation-of-ADLs gr...

Hypothermia and localized cold injuries are largely preventable with proper preparation for activities in cold environments. Proficient field management is crucial to the final outcome in terms of function and viability because proper care is vital to preventing exacerbation of the initial exposure and injury. Rapid rewarming is optimal when further cold exposure can be avoided reliably. Repeti...

Complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) has been practiced and used in this country continuously since the nineteenth century.2 All of the forms of care present then are still present today including botanical medicine (“Thomsonians”), health food (“Grahamites”), homeopathy, hydrotherapy, healing touch (“mesmerists”), osteopathy, naturopathy, chiropracty, and Christian Science.3 In the 192...

device. Introduction Caused by a viral infection of the upper respiratory tract, the “common cold” has no known cure and is responsible for considerable illness, including symptoms such as runny nose, nasal congestion, and cough; visits to the doctor; absenteeism from school and work; and economic loss. (1) Therefore, alternative treatments, including the use of complementary and alternative me...

Paresthesia and other malfunction of sense are typical complaints of peripheral neuropathy (PNP) which are most often located symmetrically in the lower limbs. In more severe forms, there are also paresis, muscular atrophy and trophical changes of the skin. The prevalence of PNP is estimated at 1:2500 inhabitants in Germany. Etiologic relations include metabolic diseases, intoxications, infecti...