What's the difference between balneotherapy and bathing?
Balneotherapy
Definition:
(n.) The treatment of disease by baths.
Example Sentences:
(1) Urinary iodine excretion was examined in 645 patients at Bad Hall, both before and after undergoing iodine balneotherapy.
(2) After completion of various types of iodine balneotherapy each lasting four weeks, the iodine excretion of all patients was higher than the minimum value proposed by WHO.
(3) Check-up examinations, X-ray material and mathematical evaluation revealed that even marked deviations from the ideal weight according to Broca, balneotherapy, regular physical training and localization of the damaged disc did not influence the development of a true relapse which called for re-operation.
(4) Generally, the balneotherapy is well tolerated by heart-transplantation patients.
(5) Data concerning acupuncture, balneotherapy, dietary measures, enzymic therapy, Seatone, homeopathy, manual therapy and fever few were found.
(6) Concluding he admits that uropepsin is a reliable method for investigation of the fermetformation function of gastric mucosa and for the assesment of the balneotherapy effect in sanatorium conditions.
(7) Three treatments for non-specific lumbar pain--balneotherapy, underwater traction bath, and underwater massage--were assessed in a randomised prospective controlled trial in 158 outpatients.
(8) Hydrocortisone phonophoresis (HPP) on the affected joints or balneotherapy with iodine bromine baths as well as the complex of these two modalities were used to treat 197 patients with osteoarthrosis.
(9) It is concluded that several haemorheological parameters relevant to atherosclerotic risk are favourably influenced in the direction of haemodilution by the complex balneotherapy used in our spa including diet and exercise.
(10) Balneotherapy with several mineral waters at health resorts proved effective in 228 patients with GI diseases.
(11) Combined therapy of primary obesity included low-caloric diet (approximately 1200 kcal) with 1-2 fasting days weekly, a complex of therapeutic exercises, physio- and balneotherapy.
(12) Side effects of intense myopia (dilatation tension and degenerative changes at the posterior eye pole) should thus be regarded as an indication of the successful application of the combined balneotherapy, mineral water treatment and eye-cure in Bad Hall.
(13) It was shown that the balneotherapy after HTPL has positive effect on the development of the systolic blood pressure under rest and exercise.
(14) Urinary retention proved considerably lower in women on postoperative balneotherapy in Dobrna.
(15) The knee joints responded better than the hip joints which show stable improvement provided adjuvant physical and balneotherapy are introduced.
(16) A randomized study entering 560 psoriasis patients on balneotherapy at Pyatigorsk health resort showed that morning balneotherapy sessions were more efficient.
(17) Furthermore, the user group was more active in daily physiotherapy, ergotherapy, and balneotherapy.
(18) Balneotherapy as a special form of physiotherapy has, with other measures, a definite place in the plan of treatment for rheumatoid arthritis.
(19) Image identification techniques were employed to develop the model of expert team evaluation of physio- and balneotherapy efficacy on objective and formal basis.
(20) Apart from the conventional treatment of the rheumatoid arthritis with steroidal and non-steroidal antirheumatic remedies, physiotherapy and balneotherapy as well as orthopaedic and surgical measures the basis therapy is an important factor.
Bathing
Definition:
(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Bathe
(n.) Act of taking a bath or baths.
Example Sentences:
(1) With NaCl as the major constituent of the bathing solution (potassium-free pipette and external solutions) the reversal potential (Er) of the noradrenaline-evoked current was about 0 mV.
(2) 'The only way that child would have drowned in the bath is if you were holding her under the water.'
(3) Circular muscle strips from the opossum esophageal body obtained 3-5 cm above the esophagogastric junction were suspended in organ baths for measurement of isometric tension.
(4) The design of a small, inexpensive temperature controlled bath (0.25 ml volume) for electrophysiological studies of isolated cells is described.
(5) A much less romantic example, but one that exists across the country, is being given a bath by a careworker.
(6) The tissue and an aliquot of bathing medium were counted for 3H and 14C content and the values entered into the Wadell and Butler equation.
(7) The effects of drugs applied in the bathing medium on the peristaltic responses were examined.
(8) The brief (3 ms) afterhyperpolarizations that followed such spikes were blocked by intracellular injections of Cs+ or by bath applications of tetraethylammonium.
(9) Replacement of bath Na+ by choline decreased the PD of tracheas by 85% but did not change alveolar PD in the presence or absence of bumetanide.
(10) Antibiotics, X-537A and A23187, were added in micromolar concentrations to selected bathing solutions of skinned frog muscle fibers, and they were shown to affect the production of tension in the skinned fibers.
(11) Similar organisms were found in the water at the site of the accident in Boston, and at ocean bathing beaches on nearby Martha's Vineyard.
(12) We therefore investigated the influence of different carbon dioxide tensions and bicarbonate concentrations on directly measured pH of organ baths aerated with mass-spectrometric analyzed O2-CO2 gases.
(13) The Index of Independence in Activities of Daily Living (Index of ADL) is a scale whose grades reflect profiles of behavioral levels of six sociobiological functions, namely, bathing, dressing, toileting, transfer, continence, and feeding.
(14) However, when Na+ in the bath was returned to the control level, pHi recovered completely Amiloride (1 mM) in the bath completely inhibited the Na(-)-dependent pHi recovery.
(15) Bath-applied N-methyl-D-aspartate (NMDA), glutamate or quisqualate elicited transient enhancement in these field potentials, followed by a sustained depression reversible on washout.
(16) Fibres bathing in 60 mm-MgCl(2) sea water, free of Ca, did not develop tension with sudden displacements of the membrane potential towards more positive values.
(17) The preparation was mounted in an organ bath and superfused with Tyrode solution containing hemicholinium-3 and eserine.
(18) Cells were then placed in a bath on a microscope stage, superfused and electrically stimulated.
(19) With magnesium-Ringer as external bathing solutions, amiloride and ouabain failed to stimulate oxygen consumption.
(20) Elevation of bath [K] reduced Vm and Vs by 30.3 and 44.5 mV, respectively.