Purpose: Studies have reported on treating various diseases with marine healing, but not the effects of healing depression, anxiety, and pain in single-parent families. This study aimed to evaluate scientific efficacy treatment using peat-pack poultice salt groundwater its families.Methods: For 26 women families, thermal therapy salt-water foot baths were performed daily for 4 days. Of subjects...

Several years ago (1, 2) we conducted studies attempting to deliberately produce tinea pedis by immersing the healthy (fungus-free) feet of volunteer subjects in suspensions of living dermatophytes for 30 minutes. The source of these fungi was either fragmented cultures of dermatophytes or the foot bath water of persons with myeologically proven, clinically active tinea pedis. Among 68 subjects...

background: the newborn’s first bath, performed in neonatal intensive care units (nicu), is believed to be a stressful situation, especially for the premature infants. as a developmental care approach, swaddle bathing is a low-stress bathing method for vulnerable preterm neonates. given the limited number of the studies examining this bathing method, the present study was conducted with the aim...

introduction: shin splint is one of the common injuries in most athletes. although the relationship between abnormal foot posture and shin splint has been reported previously but, the relation between foot posture and shin splint has not been well documented. the aim of this study was to explore the relationship between foot postures in basketball players and the history of shin splint. materia...

background: superficial and cutaneous fungal infections can be transmitted through using covered swimming pools. this study was conducted in order to assess the dermatophyte fungi, ph and residual chlorine levels in covered pools of yazd, iran in 2009. methods: in the current descriptive cross-sectional study, carpet sampling was used to collect 100 samples from different areas of 4 randomly se...

The higher the life expectancy, more problems elderly have. One of faced is health due to aging process such as hypertension and depression. aim study was determine effect warm water foot soak therapy on reducing blood pressure depression levels with hypertension. This research a quantitative pre-experimental type one group pretest-posttest design. conducted at Harapan Kita Elderly Social Insti...