Historical & Basic Terms
This man is recognized as the Father of Hydrotherapy
Who is Kneipp?
This type of heat transference involves the transfer of heat between two objects in direct contact.
What is conduction?
The correct sequence of the four sensations a client feels during cold application.
What is CBAN: Cold, burn, ache, numb?
This effect is created on blood vessels when heat is applied.
What is vasodilation?
Exfoliation using a coarse grainy product is a called body__________, while using a fine grainy product is called a body _________.
What are body scrub and body polish?
Water used to heat hot stones should be in this temperature range.
What is 130-140 degrees?
Hot packs and paraffin baths are examples of this type of heat transference
What is conduction?
The external use of water for therapeutic, palliative, recreational, or hygienic purposes?
What is hydrotherapy?
This type of heat transfer occurs through circulating currents of water or air
What is convection?
Response of alternating vasoconstriction and vasodilation occurs in extremities exposed to cold.
What is the Hunting response?
Thermotherapy increases the extensibility of this specific protein found in connective tissue.
What is collagen?
A Vichy shower is performed while the client is in this position
What is lying on a table?
Tepid water used in spa applications falls into this specific degree range.
What is 80-95 degrees?
Example of convection
What is whirlpool bath?
The three physical states of water
What are solid, liquid, and vapor?
Immersion in water increases venous circulation and decreases peripheral edema due to this type of pressure.
What is hydrostatic pressure?
Cryotherapy is no longer recommended during this initial phase of injury because interrupts this.
What is the inflammatory cascade?
Burns can occur after only 7.5 minutes when water or a heat source is at this temperature.
What is 115 degrees?
his spa technique involves floating in a foot or less of warm salt water in a dark, soundproof tank.
What is floatation therapy?
This is the standard temperature range for a whirlpool bath.
What is 99-104
Example of radiation treatment
What are infrared heat lamps?
Water is known as this because it can dissolve more substances than any other liquid.
What is the universal solvent?
Water transfers heat 25 times faster than air because it possesses this property.
What is high thermal conductivity?
Refers to the combination of cold application with joint mobilization.
What is cryokinetics?
This condition involves a sudden decrease in blood pressure and dizziness when moving to an upright position after heat.
What is orthostatic hyptension?
Recommended type of stone for hot stone therapy
What is basalt?
To ensure safety, the temperature in a sauna should never exceed this many degrees.
What is 195?
Exapmple of therapy using evaporation
Vapocoolant spray
This term refers specifically to the external use of seawater
What is thalassotherapy?
This is the transfer or loss of heat when a liquid changes into a gas.
What is evaporation?
To make a homemade cold pack, you fill a plastic bag with a 4:1 ratio of water to this substance.
What is rubbing alcohol?
This method combines cold and heat in the same treatment session.
What is the contrast method?
Italian for “mud” but can include peat and clays.
What is fango?
Skin can be burned after only 7.5 minutes if the heat source is at this temperature.
What is 115?
Ultrasound and certain chemical cold packs utilize this property to turn nonthermal energy into heat within the body
What is conversion?