Student/Therapist Resources
Chapter One: Principles of the Natural
Behavior of Water
Key Concepts
- Water behaves is several well-know and predictable ways. It is the way the
natural behavior of water during hydrotherapy treatments that allows it to
produce therapeutic changes in the physiology of the client. Understanding the
basic principles of the behavior of water is an interesting and fundamental part
of hydrotherapy education.
Water Molecule: Hydrogen Bond, Adhesion, Cohesion, Surface Tension
Heat Capacity
Movement of Water: Gravity, Evaporation, Osmosis, Pumping
Solvent: Diffusion
Suspension
Buoyancy
- Water behavior according to the same basic principles, as taught in this chapter,
in
the hydrosphere, inside the human body and during hydrotherapy treatments.
- Understand that each of
the fundamental ways in which water behaves is understood scientifically and
that there are mathematical formulas describe and predict each of these key
behaviors of water is an important part of hydrotherapy education. This provides greater understanding of use of water in
different ways in hydrotherapy treatments and also in understanding changes
that are taking place place inside the human body (which is approximately
60%, 10 gallons, 84 lbs of water).
Additional suggested Study, Research and
Teaching Exercises
- Principles of the Natural Behavior of Water
Internet Educational Resource:
Note: Additional information on the each of the different principles of
natural behavior of water (with the exception of Suspension) is provided by
links to pages on the HyperPhysics website http://hyperphysics.phy-astr.gsu.edu/hbase/hph.html
HyperPhysics
Link
(General Principles of Water)
Water Molecules: HyperPhysics Link
(Hydrogen Bond) HyperPhysics Link
(Adhesion, Cohesion) HyperPhysics
Link
(Surface Tension) HyperPhysics
Link (Kinetic Energy)
Heat Capacity: HyperPhysics Link
(Specific Heath) HyperPhysics Link
(Phase transition between ice/liquid/gas states)
Movement: HyperPhysics Link
(pressure) HyperPhysics Link
(pressure - blood flow examples) HyperPhysics
Link
(gravity) HyperPhysics Link
(evaporation) HyperPhysics Link
(osmosis)
Solvent: HyperPhysics
Link
(solvent/diffusion) HyperPhysics
Link
(pH)
Suspension: Wikipedia Link
(suspension)
Buoyancy: HyperPhysics Link
(buoyancy)
- Principles of the Natural Behavior of Water
Teaching Exercises:
Water Molecules: Number of Water
Molecules TE 1-1 Adhesion, Cohesion, Surface
Tension TE 1-2 Kinetic Energy & Diffusion TE 1-3
Heat Capacity: Water in 3 States: Solid/Liquid/Gas
TE 1-4 Heat Exchange TE 1-5
Solvent: Diffusion TE 1-3 pH TE 1-6
Suspension: Suspension TE 1-7
Movement: Pumping TE 1-8 Osmosis 1-9
Buoyancy: Buoyancy TE 1-10
- Principles of the Natural Behavior of Water
Scientific Research:
Buoyancy
Flotation Link
Heat Capacity/Exchange
Hyperthermia Link Hypothermia
Link