We have all felt the benefits of a long soak in a hot bath at the end of a particularly stressful day, or felt invigorated by taking hot shower hydrotherapy is an alternative treatment involving one of nature’s oldest elements, water. It was the Romans who first introduced the benefits water can bring us with spa’s, they found water helped to improve the blood circulation, relax tension, help in alleviating pain and brought a sense of calm.

Not only is water beneficial to us through bathing taken internally it can be used as means of a diuretic, laxative, phlegmatic and diaphoretic. Studies over recent years have looked into the various ways that hydrotherapy can be used as alternative medicine.