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Physical Therapy Techniques

Medical Definition: Therapies, including those used in the discipline of PHYSICAL THERAPY (SPECIALTY); employing physical phenomena such as temperature, light, water, and sound.
Guide Notes: GEN or unspecified; prefer specifics; SPEC = PHYSICAL THERAPY (SPECIALTY)
Physical Therapy Techniques Categories.
Canadian Medical Guide Definition Balneology - Therapy by various hot or warm baths in natural mineral waters, spas, or "cures". It includes not only bathing in, but also drinking the waters, but it does not include whirlpool baths (HYDROTHERAPY).
Canadian Medical Guide Definition Cryotherapy - A form of therapy consisting in the local or general use of cold. The selective destruction of tissue by extreme cold or freezing is CRYOSURGERY. (McGraw-Hill Dictionary of Scientific and Technical Terms, 4th ed)
Canadian Medical Guide Definition Electric Stimulation Therapy - Application of electric current in treatment without the generation of perceptible heat. It includes electric stimulation of nerves or muscles, passage of current into the body, or use of interrupted current of low intensity to raise the threshold of the skin to pain.
Canadian Medical Guide Definition Hydrotherapy - External application of water for therapeutic purposes.
Canadian Medical Guide Definition Hyperthermia, Induced - Abnormally high temperature intentionally induced in living things regionally or whole body. It is most often induced by radiation (heat waves, infra-red), ultrasound, or drugs.
Canadian Medical Guide Definition Phototherapy - Treatment of disease by exposure to light, especially by variously concentrated light rays or specific wavelengths.
Canadian Medical Guide Definition Rewarming - Application of heat to correct hypothermia, accidental or induced.
Canadian Medical Guide Definition Thalassotherapy - The therapeutic use of seaside resorts; includes treatment by sea air, sea voyages, and sea bathing.

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