Evening Star Newspaper, April 9, 1930, Page 23

SALT WATERTANK D TO CRPRLES Treatment at Children’s Hos- pital Popular With Youngsters. Two large salt tanks for the treat- ment of patients at Children's Hospital, one of which was installed recently, are proving as popular with the young- sters as “the old swimmin’ hole” once Was with their elders. While the children enjoy themselves splashing about, the treatment is bene- fiting them by stimulating muscular activity and acting as a sedative to defective nerves. The buoyancy of the ocean salt solu- tion lifts much of the weight of the body from crippled limbs or stiff joints and allows the children to walk and kick and toss their arms with unac- customed freedom. The hydrotherapy tanks are used to correct muscular inaction, through infantile paralysis, birth injury or other cause, to loosen stiff joints. to bulid up muscles inactive because of a broken bone, and to tone up the sys- tem generally. Designed to Fit Body. ‘The new tank is designed to fit a human body with outstretched arms and legs, shallow enough to obviate the danger of complete immersion and large enough to allow freedom of mo- tion. The walls are constructed to hold the heat in the water. Enough salt is put into the solution to simulatc sea water and the tempera- ture is kept high enough to induce complete muscular relaxation. Miss Louisa C. Lippitt, physio-thera- pist, is in charge of the clinics, where about 100 children receive treatment ‘weekly. Treatments are given on Mon- days and Wednesdays, with diagnostic clinics on Fridays, when examining physicians are present. ‘The use of water as a healing agent, ' Miss Lippiti explained, developed dur- | ing the World War, in treatment of sol- diers who had suffered paralysis from one cause or another. For hundreds of years, she said, people everywhere have ne to the seashore in warm climates lor the treatment of rheumatism and other muscular diseases, although the use of the tank and warm salt water is comparatively recent. The idea was the outgrowth of the efforts of a wealthy Chicagoan to cure his cr:rpel daughter of the effects of infantile paralysis. The man conceived the notion, from his boyhood knowledge of “the old swimmin’ hole,” of con- structing a tank in which the buoyancy of the water would help support his daughter while she exercised the crip- pled members. ‘The Chicagoan had such a tank con- structed and it proved so beneficial to | his daughter that he had others of a similar design made and presented them to a school for crippled children in Chicago and to the University of Wis- consin in order that a scientific study * might be made of their use. Miss Lippitt became interested in the | treatment while teaching hygiene at the University of Wisconsin during a . Her acgount, interested e er, ir., who 'the ' Chil- lospital, & circular container ?( gbénllon capacity, three and a half e eep. ‘The manufacturer who built this tank made experiments and designed an- other to fit the human body, The first tank is refained for patients who have improved enough to be allowed to stard or ht with the aid of the buoyancy of the water. The new tank is used ho have to recline more for patients W] or for very small children. The treatment is of particular worth to victims of infantile paralysis, whose muscles usually are weak and wasted. Exercise to develop them is induced by the relaxing of the water and its buoy- ancy. In another type of paralysis the muscles are drawn up because of a sort of spasm, and it is hard to get the child to move the afflicted member because of his inability to relax. Here the sedative quality of the treatment is valuable. Any start toward recovery, particu- larly where the legs have been affected, is accompanied by the impulse to walk. The child who cannot walk upon the floor once in the tank often is able to walk a little, and thus becomes accus- tomed to the effort and develops strength in the injured members. Gradually then he is allowed to walk on the floor, a few moments at a time, and often improves. enough to dispense with treatments. Responds to Treatment, One 10-year-old victim of an injury at birth, who had spent most of his time in a hospital and was considered a hopeless paralytic, responded to the tank treatment with unusual rapidity, and is only an occasional visitor at the clinic, where he reports for examination. ‘When the schiool for crippled children was opened this boy was enrolled and is regarded as one of its brightest puplils. His doctors say that but fer the Chil- dren’s Hospital clinics, made possible by the Community Chest, the boy would be a hopeless cripple today and could look forward to little better in the future. ‘The Government has sent out doctors from the District Health :Department to examine the tanks and learn the THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C, WEDNESDAY, APRIL 9, 1930. treatments, with a view to installing them in t s for chil. Fo S S el e e e at Seventeenth and M streets. In all the Children’s Hospital treats over 600 children a week in its clinics. More than 5,000 children monthly re- celve free or part-pay attention, ‘The hospital is assisted in its work by the local Junior League members, who drive the patients to and from the hospital in automobiles to spare them the necessity of making long, tiresome trips across town in public conveyances at times when they are in pour healty. 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