spa is the location where mineral-rich springs (and sometimes seawater) are used for bathing. Town spas or spa resorts (including hot spring resorts) usually offer a variety of health treatments, also known as balneotherapy. The belief in the curative power of mineral water goes back to prehistoric times. Such practices have been popular throughout the world, but are especially widespread in Europe and Japan. Day spa is also quite popular, and offers a variety of personal care treatments.
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The origin of the term
The term is derived from the name of the city of Spa, Belgium, whose name is known back from Roman times, when it was called Aquae Spadanae , sometimes incorrectly connected to Latin meaning spargere spread, sprinkle or moist. The word 'spa' itself shows a "fountain".
Since the Middle Ages, diseases caused by iron deficiency were treated by drinking a water containing a calcified spring (in 1326, the iron expert Collin le Loup claimed the drug, when spring was called Espa , Walloon said for "water fountain ").
In 16th-century England, ancient Roman ideas about bathing medicine were revived in cities such as Bath ( not the source of the word bath), and in 1596 William Slingsby who had gone to the city of Belgium (which he calls spaw ) finds a scaly spring in Yorkshire. He built a well in a place known as Harrogate, the first resort in England to drink water, then in 1596 Dr. Timothy Bright after finding a second well called the English Spaw resort, came into use from the word < i> Spa as a general description.
It is generally claimed, in the commercial context, that the word is an acronym of various Latin phrases such as " Salus Per Aquam " or " Sanitas Per Aquam " which means "health through water ". This is highly unlikely: derivation does not appear before the beginning of the 21st century and may be a backronym because there is no evidence of acronyms that entered into language before the 20th century; also does not match the Roman name known for the location.
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History
Spa therapy has existed since the classical era when bathing with water is considered a popular way to treat illness. The practice of traveling to hot or cold water sources in the hope of healing some diseases that originated from prehistoric times. Archaeological investigations near hot springs in France and the Czech Republic reveal the weapons and the Bronze Age offerings. In the United Kingdom, the ancient legend praised the early Celtic king with the discovery of the hot springs in Bath, England.
Many people around the world believe that bathing in certain springs, wells, or streams produces physical and spiritual purification. The form of ritual purification was among Native Americans, Babylonians, Egyptians, Greeks, and Romans. Today, water purification rituals can be found in religious ceremonies of Jews, Muslims, Christians, Buddhists, and Hindus. These ceremonies reflect ancient belief in the healing and purifying properties of water. A complicated bathing ritual was also performed in ancient Egypt, in prehistoric towns of the Indus Valley, and in the Aegean civilization. Most often these ancient people do the construction of small buildings around the water, and what they do construction is temporary.
Bathing in Greek and Roman times
Some of the earliest descriptions of western bath practices are from Greece. The Greeks began to shower the regimen that formed the foundation for modern spa procedures. These Aegean people take advantage of a small bathtub, sink, and foot bath for personal hygiene. The earliest findings are bathing in the palace complex at Knossos, Crete, and the luxurious alabaster bathtub unearthed at Akrotiri, Santorini; both of which date from the middle of the 2nd millennium BC. They set up public baths and bathe in their gym complex for relaxation and personal hygiene. Greek mythology mentions that certain natural springs or tidal pools are blessed by the gods to cure illness. Around this sacred pool, the Greeks established a bath facility for those who wanted healing. The devotees leave the offerings to the gods for healing in these places and bathe themselves in hopes of a cure. Spartans develop a primitive steam bath. In Serangeum, early Greek balneum (bathhouse, which is translated loosely), the bathroom is cut into the hillside where the hot springs are expelled. A series of recesses cut stone above the bathroom held bathing suits. One of the bathrooms has a decorative mosaic floor depicting the driver and horse carriage drawn by four horses, a woman followed by two dogs, and a dolphin below. Thus, the early Greeks used natural features, but expanded it and added their own facilities, such as decorations and shelves. During the later Greek civilization, the bath house was often built alongside the athletic field.
The Romans imitated many of the Greek bath practices. Rome goes beyond the Greeks in the size and complexity of their baths. This is due to many factors: the size and population of larger Roman cities, the availability of water flowing following the construction of waterways, and the discovery of cement, which makes building large buildings easier, safer, and cheaper. As in Greece, Roman baths became a center of focus for social and recreational activities. As the Roman Empire grew, the idea of ​​a public bath spread to all parts of the Mediterranean and to Europe and North Africa. With the construction of waterways, the Romans had enough water not only for domestic use, agriculture, and industry, but also for their casual pursuits. The drains provide water which is then heated for use in the baths. Today, the extent of the Roman baths is revealed in the ruins and archaeological excavations of Europe, Africa and the Middle East.
The Romans also developed baths in their colonies, taking advantage of the natural hot springs that occurred in Europe to build baths in Aix and Vichy in France, Bath and Buxton in England, Aachen and Wiesbaden in Germany, Baden, Austria and Aquincum in Hungary , among other locations. The baths became the center of recreational and social activities in the Roman community. Libraries, lecture halls, gymnasiums, and formal gardens are part of some bathing complexes. In addition, the Romans used hot water to relieve their suffering from rheumatism, arthritis, and overeating in food and drink. The decline of the Roman Empire in the west, beginning in 337 after the death of Emperor Constantine, resulted in Roman legions leaving their remote provinces and leaving the baths to be taken over by the local population or destroyed.
So, the Romans raised their baths to art, and their bath houses physically reflect this progress. Roman baths, for example, include rituals that are much more complicated than simple dyeing or sweat procedures. Different parts of the bathing ritual - undressing, bathing, sweating, receiving massage, and resting - require separate rooms built by Romans to accommodate those functions. The separation of sex and the addition of diversion not directly related to the bath also had a direct impact on the shape and shape of the bathhouse. The elaborate Roman bath ritual and its resulting architecture set a precedent for the next European and American bath facilities. The formal garden spaces and the structuring of the same fancy architecture that the Romans made in Europe at the end of the 18th century. The great spas in America followed him a century later.
Medieval bath
With the decline of the Roman Empire, public baths were often the site of moral behavior, and such use was responsible for the spread of disease cures. The common belief that flourished among European societies is that bathing often promotes illness and disease. The medieval church authorities encouraged this belief and made every effort to close the public baths. Ecclesiastical officials believe that public baths create an environment open to immorality and disease. Officials of the Roman Catholic Church even banned public baths in a failed attempt to stop a syphilis epidemic from sweeping Europe. Overall, this period is a time of decline for public baths.
People are constantly searching for some hot and cold springs, believed to be sacred wells, to cure diseases. In a time of religious zeal, the benefits of water are associated with God or one of the saints. In 1326, Collin le Loup, an iron expert from LiÃÆ'¨ge, Belgium, discovered the springs of Spa, Belgium. In the vicinity of these springs, a famous health resort eventually grew and the term "spa" came to refer to any health resort located near natural springs. During this period, individual springs become associated with certain diseases they can exploit.
Bath procedures during this period vary greatly. In the 16th century, physicians in Karlsbad, Bohemia, determined that mineral water was taken internally and externally. Patients periodically bathe in warm water for up to 10 or 11 hours while drinking glasses of mineral water. The first shower session takes place in the morning, the second in the afternoon. This treatment lasts several days until the pustular skin is formed and ruptured resulting in "toxic" drying regarded as the source of the disease. Then followed a series of shorter and hotter baths to clear the infection and close the eruption.
In the English coastal town of Scarborough in 1626, Ny. Elizabeth Farrow discovered the flow of acidic water flowing from one of the cliffs to the south of the city. It is considered to have beneficial health properties and spawned the Scarborough Spa. Dr. Wittie's book on spa waters published in 1660 attracted a flood of visitors to the city. Bathing in the sea added to healing, and Scarborough became the first seaside resort in the UK. The first revolving shower machine for showers was recorded in the sand in 1735.
Bathing in the 18th century
In the 17th century, most upper-class Europeans washed their clothes with water frequently and washed only their faces (with linens), feeling that bathing the whole body was a low-class activity; but the upper classes slowly began to change their attitude towards bathing as a way to restore health later in the century. Rich people flock to health resorts to drink and bathe in the water. In 1702, Anne, Queen of England, went to Bath, the former Roman construction, to bathe. A few moments later, Richard (Beau) Nash came to Bath. With the strength of his personality, Nash became the referee of good taste and good manners in England. He along with financier Ralph Allen and architect John Wood transform Bath from a country spa into Britain's social capital. Bath set the tone for other spas in Europe to follow. It is as if the rich and famous get there seasonally to bathe and drink water; However, they also come to showcase their luxury. Social activities in Bath include dances, concerts, playing cards, lectures, and promenades on the street.
A typical day in Bath is probably a shared bath in the morning followed by a private breakfast party. After that, a person drinks water in the Pump Room (a building built on a hot spring) or attends a fashion show. Doctors encourage health resort officers to bathe and drink water with the same power. The next few hours can be spent shopping, visiting a loan library, attending a concert, or stopping at one of the coffee shops. At 4:00 pm, the rich and famous people dressed grooming and promenade on the streets. Next came dinner, more promenades, and evenings dancing or gambling.
Similar activities occur in health resorts across Europe. The spa became the stage where Europeans paraded with a huge procession. These resorts became famous as a place full of gossip and scandal. Various social and economic classes choose a particular season during this year's course, staying from one to several months, for a vacation in any resort. An aristocratic season occupied the resort; at other times, prosperous peasants or retired military take a bath. The rich and the criminals who preyed on them moved from one spa to the next because the fashionable season for the resort changed.
During the 18th century, the awakening in the medical use of springs was promoted by Enlightened doctors across Europe. This awakening changed the way of taking spa treatments. For example, in Karlsbad the accepted method for drinking mineral water is required to send large vats to individual shelters where patients take prescribed medicines in the solitude of their rooms. Dr. David Beecher in 1777 suggested that patients come to the fountain to take water and each patient should first do some specified exercise. This innovation increases the benefits of the drugs obtained and gradually physical activity becomes part of the European bath regimen. In 1797, in England, Dr. James Currie publishes Water Effects, Cold and Warm, as Drugs for Fever and Other Diseases . As pointed out by M D Eddy, this book, together with many local pamphlets on the composition of the spa water, stimulates additional interest in water healing and advocates the use of external and internal water as part of the preservation process.
Bathroom in the 19th and 20th century
In the 19th century, bathing became a more accepted practice because doctors were aware of some of the benefits that can be given by cleanliness. The cholera epidemic in Liverpool, England in 1842 resulted in sanitary stimulation, facilitated by overlapping hydropathic and sanitation movements, and the enforcement of a series of laws known collectively as "The Baths and Wash-Houses Acts 1846 to 1896". The result is an increase of facilities for bathing and washing clothes, and more people participating in these activities.
Also in 1842, a home in Cincinnati, Ohio, received the first indoor bath in the United States. Bathing, however, is still not a universal custom. Only one year later - in 1843 - a bath between 1 November and 15 March was banned in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, as a health act, and in 1845 a bath was banned in Boston, Massachusetts, except under a doctor's direct order. However, the situation is improving, and by 1867 in Philadelphia, most of the wealthy homes had tubs and water channels in the house. In England, hot springs were installed in barracks and schools in the 1880s. Taboo against the bath disappears with advances in medical science; the medical community around the world even promotes the benefits of bathing. In addition, Victoria's taste for exotic lends itself perfectly to the curative power of hot water.
In many ways, the development of a formal European spa architecture took place in the 18th and 19th centuries. The Bath, British architecture, developed along the lines of Georgia and Neoclassic, generally follows the Palladian structure. The most important form of architecture that emerges is the "sickle" - a semi-elliptical road plan used in many parts of Britain. The spa architecture of Carlsbad, Marienbad, Franzensbad, and Baden-Baden is mainly Neoclassical, but the literature seems to indicate that the large bath house was not built until the 19th century. The emphasis on drinking water rather than bathing in it leads to the development of a separate structure known as Trinkhallen (the drinking-room) where people who take drugs spend hours drinking water from springs.
By the mid-19th century, the situation had changed dramatically. Visitors to the European spa began to stress the baths in addition to drinking water. In addition to fountains, pavilions, and Trinkhallen, the baths at the Roman bath scale were revived. Photos of the 19th century spa complex taken in the 1930s, detailing the previous architecture, show the heavy use of mosaic floors, marble walls, classical sculptures, curved openings, domed ceilings, segmental arches, triangular pediments, Corinthian columns, and all other ornaments of the Neoclassical awakening. Buildings are usually separated by functions - with Trinkhalle , baths, inhalators (for breathing steam), and Kurhaus or Conversationhaus It is the center of social activity. Baden-Baden displays golf courses and tennis courts, "amazing roads for motor over, and drives along ancient lanes where wild deer are just like cows to us, and hardly afraid".
The European Spa, then, begins with a structure for a function house drinking - from a simple fountain to a pavilion to decipher Trinkhallen. Massive baths came later in the 19th century as a new preference for elaborate bathing rituals to cure disease and improve health to fashion. European architects look back to Roman civilization and carefully studied its fine architectural precedents. The Europeans imitate the formality, symmetry, the same division of rooms by function, and the luxurious interior design in their bathhouse. They imitate the fountains and formal garden space in their resort, and they also add a new diversion. The tour books always mention the wide and woody offerings around and the quicker night diversion.
At the beginning of the 19th century, European bath regimens consisted of a number of accumulated traditions. Bath routines include soaking in hot water, drinking water, steaming in the steam room, and relaxing in the refrigerator. In addition, doctors order that patients be moistened with hot or cold water and given a diet of choice to promote healing. The authors began to write guidebooks to health resorts in Europe describing the medical benefits and social facilities of each. Rich Europeans and Americans travel to these resorts to take cultural and bath activities.
Every European spa begins to offer the same healing while maintaining a certain amount of individuality. The 19th century bath regimen in Karlsbad can serve as a general overview of European bathing practice during this century. Visitors show up at 6 am to drink water and accompanied by a band. Next comes a light breakfast, bath, and lunch. Doctors in Karlsbad usually limit patients to certain foods for every meal. In the afternoon, visitors go sightseeing or attend concerts. The evening theater performance follows dinner. It ended around 9 pm with patients returning to their lodgings until 6 am the next day. The regimen continued for a month and then the patient returned home until the following year. Other European 19th-century spa regimens follow the same schedule.
At the beginning of the 20th century, European spas combine strict diet and exercise with complicated bath procedures to achieve benefits for patients. One example would be enough to describe a change in the bath procedure. Patients in Baden-Baden, who specialize in rheumatoid arthritis, are directed to a doctor before bathing. After this happens, the baths go to the main baths where they pay for their baths and store their valuables before being given a booth to undress. The baths provide a bathroom with towels, sheets and slippers.
The Baden-Baden bath procedure begins with a warm bath. The bath then enters the circulation room, 140 Â ° F (60 Â ° C) of hot air for 20 minutes, spends another ten minutes in a room with a temperature of 150 Â ° F (66 Â ° C), consisting of 154 F (68 Â ° C) steam bath, then take a shower and receive a soap massage. After a massage, the baths swim in a heated pool near body temperature. After a dip, the baths rest for 15 to 20 minutes in the warm "Sprudel" pool. The bottom of this shallow pond contains a layer of sand measuring 8 inches (200 mm) with natural bubbling natural water. This was followed by an increasingly cool series of showers and pools. After that, the officer scrubs the bath with a warm towel and wraps it in a sheet and covers it with a blanket to rest for 20 minutes. This ends up the bath treatments portion. The rest of the healing consists of a prescribed diet, exercise, and drinking water program.
European spas provide other entertainment for guests after bathing, including gambling, horse racing, fishing, hunting, tennis, skating, dancing, golf and horseback riding. The appearance of sight and theater performances are presented as a further incentive for people to go to the spa. Some European governments even recognize the medical benefits of spa therapy and pay some of the patient's expenses. A number of these spas cater to those suffering from obesity and eating too much in addition to various other medical complaints. In recent years, the elegance and style of previous centuries may have diminished, but people still come to natural hot springs for relaxation and health. In Germany, the tradition survives to this day. 'Taking drugs' ( Kur ) at the spa is covered 100% by public and private health care insurance, as mandated by federal law. Usually, a doctor prescribes several weeks, not less than two weeks, but generally four to six weeks, living in mineral spring or other natural settings where the patient's condition will be treated with healing springs and natural therapies. In addition to treatments and accommodation even all food and drinks as well as entertainment are paid by insurance. Most Germans qualify every two to six years, depending on the severity of the condition. The Germans are paid their regular salary during this time of their work which is not taken from their day off.
In colonial America
Some European colonists brought their knowledge of hot water therapy for medicinal purposes, and others studied the benefits of hot springs from Native Americans. The Europeans gradually acquired many hot and cold springs from various Indian tribes. They then developed spring to meet European tastes. In the 1760s, the British colonies traveled to hot and cold springs in Connecticut, Pennsylvania, New York, and Virginia to search for water cures. Among the more frequented of these springs are Bath, Yellow, and Bristol Springs in Pennsylvania; and Warm Springs, Hot Springs, and White Sulfur Springs (now in West Virginia) in Virginia. In the last decade of the 1700s, the New York spa began to be frequented by brave travelers, especially Ballston Spa. Saratoga Springs and nearby Kinderhook have not been found.
The colonial doctors gradually began recommending hot springs for disease. Benjamin Rush, a patriot and American doctor, praised the springs of Bristol, Pennsylvania, in 1773. Samuel Tenney in 1783 and Dr. Valentine Seaman in 1792 examined Ballston Spa's water in New York and wrote about the possible use of medicine from springs. The hotel was built to accommodate visitors to various springs. Entrepreneurs operate places where travelers can stay, eat, and drink. So began the health resort industry in the United States.
Baths in the 19th and 20th centuries in America
After the American Revolution, the spa industry continues to gain popularity. The first truly popular spa was Saratoga Springs, which in 1815, had two large, four-story Greek revival hotels. It grew rapidly, and in 1821 it had at least five hundred rooms for accommodation. Its relatively close proximity to New York City and access to the country's most advanced steamship lane means that by the mid 1820s the spa became the country's most popular tourist destination, serving both the country's elite as well as the middle-class audience. Although spa activity has been the center of Saratoga in the 1810s, in the 1820s the resort has hotels with ballrooms, opera houses, shops, and a large clubhouse. The Union Hotel (first built in 1803 but continues to grow over the next few decades) has its own esplanade, and by the 1820s had a formal fountain and landscape, but with only two small bath houses. As the resort was developed as a tourist destination the mineral baths became an additional structure and not the main feature of the resort, although drinking mineral water was at least followed as a pro-forma activity by most of the attendees, despite a complicated and extensive dinner night. Although Saratoga and other spas in New York concentrate their development around healthy mineral water, their original image cards are complex social life and cultural cachet. However, the wider audience gathered by the late 1820s began to take some of the bloom from the resort, and in the mid-1830s, in a successful attempt to revive him, he switched to a horse race.
In the mid-1850s, hot and cold spring resorts existed in 20 states. Many of these resorts have similar architectural features. Most health resorts have large two-storey buildings near or at springs, with smaller structures around them. The main building provides guests with facilities for dining, and perhaps, dancing on the first floor, and the second story consists of a bedroom. The outer structure is an individual guest cabin, and other additional buildings form a semicircle or U shape around large buildings.
These resorts offer swimming, fishing, hunting, and horseback riding and facilities for bathing. Virginia resorts, especially White Sulfur Springs, proved popular before and after the Civil War. After the Civil War, the spa holiday became very popular as the soldiers were back in the bath to heal the wounds and the American economy allowed more free time. Saratoga Springs in New York became one of the main centers for this type of activity. Bathing and drinking warm water, carbonated springs only serve as a prelude to more exciting social activities of gambling, promenading, horse racing, and dancing.
During the last half of the 19th century, Western entrepreneurs developed natural hot and cold springs to the resort - from the Mississippi River to the West Coast. Many of these spas offer individual baths, steam baths, douche sprays, needle fountains, and swimming pools for their guests. Various railways that stretch the country promote this resort to encourage train travel. Hot Springs, Arkansas, becomes the premier resort for people from the St. Louis metropolitan area. Louis and Chicago.
The popularity of the spa continued into the 20th century. Some medical critics, however, allege that hot water in famous resorts such as Hot Springs, Virginia, and Saratoga Springs, New York, is no more beneficial to health than regular hot water. Various spa owners respond to this argument by developing better hydrotherapy for their patients. At Saratoga's spa, treatments for heart and circulatory disorders, rheumatic conditions, neurological disorders, metabolic diseases, and skin diseases are developed. In 1910, the New York state government began to buy a major spring to protect them from exploitation. When Franklin Delano Roosevelt became governor of New York, he encouraged the development of a European-type spa in Saratoga. Architects for the new complex spent two years studying the technical aspects of bathing in Europe. Completed in 1933, the building has three bathhouses - Lincoln, Washington, and Roosevelt - a drinking hall, the Hall of Springs, and a residential building of the Simon Baruch Research Institute. Four additional buildings consist of a multi-storey recreation and arcade area and a swimming pool decorated with terra-cotta blue faience tiles. The Neoclassical Building at Saratoga Spa State Park is grandly styled, with a formal perpendicular axis, solid brick construction, and Roman stone and concrete reversals. The spa is surrounded by 1,200-acre (1,9 km 2 ) natural parks that have 18 miles (29 km) of restraints, "measurably walking on gradients that are scientifically calculated through their clumps and valleys, with sprinkling springs add an unexpected touch to the landscape, with water flowing from Geyser Brook flowing under a smooth road bridge.The full advantage has been taken from the natural beauty of the park, but no formal landscape ". The promotional literature again advertises attractions directly outside the spa: shopping, horse racing, and historical sites related to the history of the revolutionary war. New York Governor Herbert Lehman opened a new facility to the public in July 1935.
Other prominent spas in the US during this period were French Lick, Indiana; Hot Springs and Sulfur White Water Resources, West Virginia; Hot Springs, Arkansas; and Warm Springs, Georgia. French Lick is specialized in treating obesity and constipation through a combination of bathing and drinking water and exercising. Hot Springs, Virginia, which specializes in digestive and heart disease, and White Sulfur Springs, Virginia, treats these diseases and skin diseases. Both resorts offer baths where water will continue to wash patients as they lie in shallow ponds. Warm Springs, Georgia, gained a reputation for treating infantile paralysis with bath and exercise procedures. President Franklin D. Roosevelt, who previously supported Saratoga, is often a visitor and promoter of this spa.
Treatment
'Body care', 'spa treatments', or 'cosmetic treatments' are non-medical procedures to help the body's health. This is often done at resorts, destination spa, day spa, beauty salon or school.
Specific treatments include:
- Aromatherapy
- Take a bath or soak in one of the following:
- Artificial waterfall, as a cervical waterfall (spine).
- Feetbath
- Hot spring
- Onsen (Hot Springs Japan)
- Thermae (Roman Hot Spring)
- Hot tub
- Mud baths
- Jet hydro massage, as hydro hydro massage goose neck
- Porridge pulp peat
- Sauna
- Steam bath
- Shower Vichy
- Wrap up, wrap the body with warm sheets, plastic sheets and blankets, or mud scrubs, often combined with herbal compounds.
- Massage
- Hair
- Nail care such as manicure and pedicure
- Waxing, hair removal with hot wax
Recent trends
In modern world spa therapy is associated with various domains including beauty, pampering, pleasure, and health. The spa industry is considered to grow at a very high rate, and the most important thing is observed to embrace health as its core business. By the late 1930s more than 2,000 hot or cold hot spring health resorts were operating in the United States. This number has been greatly reduced in 1950 and continues to decline in the next two decades. In the past, spas in the US emphasized diet programs, sports, or recreation more than traditional bathing activities.
Until recently, the public bath industry in the US remained stagnant. Nevertheless, in Europe, bath therapy has always been very popular, and remains so today. The same is true in Japan, where traditional hot spring baths, known as onsen , always attract many visitors.
But also in the US, with the growing focus on health and fitness, such treatments are becoming popular again.
Type of care
- Day spa, a form of beauty salon.
- Destination spa, resort to personal care treatments.
- A spa town, a city visited to discover the healing properties of water.
- Foot spa
- Hot tub, in use in the United States.
- Spa (mineral water), from sources at Spa.
- Ganban'yoku, hot stone spa
- Spas usually offer mud baths for general health, or to cope with various medical conditions. This is also known as 'fangoterapi'. Various clays of drugs and peat are used.
Definition of International Spa Association
Spa - a place devoted to overall wellbeing through professional services that encourage renewal of mind, body, and spirit.
Type
- Ayurvedic spa, where care is inspired by traditional Indian medical practice.
- Club spa, a facility whose sole purpose is fitness or swimming pool and which offers a range of spa services professionally managed based on everyday use.
- Spa cruises, a cruise-ship spa that provides professionally managed spa services, fitness and fitness components, as well as spa menu options.
- Day spa, a spa that offers a range of spa services professionally managed to clients on a daily basis.
- Dental spa, a facility under licensed dentist supervision that combines traditional dental care with spa services.
- Destination spa, a facility with the primary goal of guiding individual spa-goers to develop healthy habits. Historically living for seven days, this lifestyle transformation can be achieved by providing a comprehensive program that includes spa services, physical fitness activities, health education, healthy cuisine, and special interest programs.
- Hot tub, outdoor spa used for bathing and self-cleaning
- Medical spa, a facility operating under the on-site supervision of a licensed health care professional whose primary purpose is to provide comprehensive medical and health care in an environment that integrates spa services, as well as traditional, complementary therapies and treatments and/or alternatively. The facility operates within the scope of its staff practices, which may include aesthetic/cosmetic and prevention/health procedures and services. These spas usually use balneotherapy, using various peloids.
"Balneotherapy treatments can have different purposes: In spa settings, they can be used to treat conditions such as arthritis and back pain, build muscle after injury or illness or to stimulate the immune system, and they can be enjoyed as a day-to-day help. daily stress. "
- Spa mineral springs, spas that offer natural, thermal or seawater mineral resources in places used in hydrotherapy treatments.
- Spa resort/hotel, spa owned by and located within the resort or hotel that provides professionally managed spa services, fitness and fitness components, as well as spa menu choices.
- Spa phones, spas providing services at home, hotels, or wherever you are.
Industry regulations
The International Spa and Body Wrap Association (ISBWA) is an international association for spa and body care centers around the world. ISBWA's main concerns are industry regulation and consumer welfare. Member organizations must comply with the ISBWA code of ethics, which requires them to do the following:
- Provide care and products that are safe, healthy, and effective.
- Adhere to the highest standards of professionalism and honesty in all client interactions, and will not engage in unethical practices.
- Respect his client's rights to dignity, confidentiality, and privacy.
- Make a commitment to improve service and maintenance.
- Obey the laws, rules and regulations governing the provision of care and services required by the local government in which they operate.
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See also
- Jacuzzi
- List of spa cities
- Massage
- Peloids
- Sauna
- Spa, Belgium, municipal Belgium
- Water cures (therapy)
Note
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