.}} Hydrotherapy, formerly called hydropathy involves the use of water for pain-relief and treating illness. It involves a range of methods and techniques, many of which use water as a medium to faciltate thermoregulatory reactions for therapeutic benefit. While the physiological mechanisms were initially poorly understood, the therapuetic benefits have long been recognised, even if the reason for the therapeutic benefit was in dispute. For example, in November 1881, the British Medical Journa… (More on Hydrotherapy)