Chapter 12: Hydrotherapy: Clinical and Spa Applications
Salvo: Massage Therapy
MULTIPLE CHOICE
1. What is the term used for the external use of water for therapeutic, palliative, recreational, or
hygienic purposes?
a. Hypnotherapy
b. Hydrotherapy
c. Aromatherapy
d. Thalassotherapy
ANS: B
Hydrotherapy, from the Greek word hydro, meaning “water,” is the external use of water for
therapeutic, palliative, recreational, or hygienic purposes.
2. What is the term for therapeutic use of heat?
a. Thermotherapy
b. Hydrotherapy
c. Cryotherapy
d. Thalassotherapy
ANS: A
The therapeutic use of heat is thermotherapy.
3. What is the term for therapeutic use of cold?
a. Thermotherapy
b. Hydrotherapy
c. Cryotherapy
d. Thalassotherapy
ANS: C
The therapeutic use of cold is cryotherapy.
4. What is the term for the use of sea water?
a. Aromatherapy
b. Cryotherapy
c. Thermotherapy
d. Thalassotherapy
ANS: D
Thalassotherapy is the use of sea water specifically.
5. Who is regarded as the father of hydrotherapy?
a. Pehr Henrik Ling
b. Hippocrates of Cos
c. John Harvey Kellogg
d. Father Sebastian Kneipp
ANS: D
, Father Sebastian Kneipp (1821–1897), from Worshofen, Bavaria, in western Germany, is
regarded as the father of hydrotherapy. Father Kneipp possessed exceptional knowledge and
skill in using water to heal the ailments that afflicted members of his community. These
treatments, known collectively as Kneipp therapy, are still used today at world-class spas.
6. Which method has as key components herbal and mineral baths as well as cold or alternating
hot and cold treatments administered by water, stones, or pebbles?
a. Physical therapy
b. Aromatherapy c.
Kneipp therapy d.
Thalassotherapy
ANS: C
Key components of Kneipp therapy are herbal and mineral baths, as well as cold or alternating
hot and cold treatments administered by water, stones, or pebbles.
7. Which type of facility was established in the late nineteenth century for individuals to regain
health after a long-term illness?
a. Rest home
b. Gymnasium
c. Orthopedic center
d. Sanitarium
ANS: D
Sanitariums were established as a type of health resort where individuals could go to regain
health after a long-term illness such as tuberculosis and polio.
8. Which type of heat transfeTr oEcScuTrBs AbeNtwKeSeEn LtwLoEoRb.jeCctOs
Mor substances that are in direct contact?
a. Radiation
b. Conduction
c. Evaporation
d. Conversion
ANS: B
Conduction is the transfer of heat between two objects or substances that are in direct contact.
Stationary or non-moving water transfers heat by conduction.
9. Which type of heat transfer occurs by circulating currents of water or air between warmer and
cooler objects or substances?
a. Radiation
b. Conduction
c. Convection
d. Evaporation
ANS: C
Convection is transfer of heat by circulating currents of water or air between warmer objects
or substances and cooler objects or substances. The principles are similar to that of conduction
in that one object/substance is heated and its particles interact with another object/substance of
a lesser temperature and transfer heat in the process.
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