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Hydrotherapy Tub

Hydrotherapy Tub

A stainless steel tub used for hydrotherapy is stripped of most of it's parts.
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wat is hydotheapry
arnie
Fri 06-10-2005
Hydrotherapy is use of water to treat symptoms. In mental hospitals it was used to treat psychiatric symptoms.
Soaking the patient in a warm bath was thought to have calming effects. Wrapping a patient in cool, wet cloths or running cool water over pulse points (wrists and ankles) was believed to lower body temperature, calm nerves, and slow pulse rate. Things like that. These were palliative (symptom only ) treatments at best, and at worse were abused for punishment and deterrant. If you act up, you might get plunged into a tub of ice water again , and we wouldn't want that now would we?
Max
Tue 06-14-2005
That's a cool shape for a tub. I'd like to have a bathtub like that, only I'd prefer porcelin!
Max
Tue 06-14-2005
que maldito bano, parece la novia de carlitos, lolz
los dominicanos
Wed 07-06-2005
i found this room and sat in this tub..i was very freaked out by it..thw room was so hot but the tub was so cold..it was wierd..y was the tub cold but the room SO hot?
sammy
Wed 08-10-2005
man that is cool, let have a hottub party !!
triniphen
Fri 08-19-2005
thats fucking weird...
I'd love to install that tub in my bathroom...O_O well, not really...
Andrew
Sat 08-20-2005
What memories, while searching for my retirement pay, here I am spending most my day, and just remembering the heart break.
stephanie
Thu 08-25-2005
Sammy I sat in the tub to and your right I felt the difference in heat to that is some really weird stuff I figured it was in my head.
Tom
Thu 09-08-2005
Touch anything stainless steel and tell me it does not feel chillier than the atmosphere it is within.

Hence that the inside of the tub would contain the coolness.
~Me
Fri 09-09-2005
most likely the answer but its also the air is so still that the cold seems to radiate above and around the tub its a stranger then strange feeling once your in those surroundings.
tom
Sun 09-25-2005
Well, psychic researchers have found that the presence of ghosts is often indicated by a startling drop in temperature.
So, while you were in the tub...did it seem a bit...crowded? Did you hear a voice saying, "Hit the timer again, dude, for another 15 minutes."
Dr Pandolus
Sat 10-15-2005
The tub felt cold because stainless steel has a very high thermal conductivity, so that when something hot (you) touch it, the heat is conducted away from you (i.e. it feels cold).

Air is an insulator; it has a low thermal conductivity. Things like feathers trap air, making down warm. If the air was trapped in the room and not moving, it would feel warm.

There is absolutely nothing supernatural about a cold feeling steel object in a warm feeling room.
Neefer
Tue 10-18-2005
Just if was easy getting it out...
VegaStreetKing
Sun 10-30-2005
im amazed that this wonderful big tub is still in there. i wonder if anyone would miss it or just notice if i would sneak out with it. hehe. =)
Chip
Fri 12-09-2005
hehe just kidding. though i need some *'hydrotherapy'. *g*
Chip
Fri 12-09-2005
Damned nice looking tub. I'd love to turn it into a Jacuzzi for the master bedroom.
John W. Mac
Fri 12-16-2005
It reminds me of Girl Interrupted. Strangely beautiful isn't it? amazing work Mott.
Heather
Thu 01-05-2006
hey, maybe they'll reclaim some of these for the bathrooms in the condos being converted up at Danvers State hospital. All the rage in former mental hospital decor.......
ghoul2
Tue 01-17-2006
Wow all that stainless steel. That would be worth a lot!
Eddie
Wed 04-12-2006
To extend on Neefer's comment, it must've been less than your body temperature in the room, even if it was hot and humid. If that tub were hotter in temperature than your skin, you'd get the opposite effect. There is definitely nothing that magically keeps it at a different temperature than the rest of the room.
DW
Sun 05-07-2006
It is a little strange that it is so polished. Everything else in the other photos is torn up. Why did this piece of stainless steel stay nice? Who is cleaning it?
Dre
Sun 08-20-2006
why such a huge tub for just one patient? this is the size of a child{s wading pool, but enough to drown someone. why is it left to rot there?
negritail
Fri 09-22-2006
i thinnk its a lil odd shape for therapy. and it is pretty big but one person can lay in it while a doctor perfroms mabe still an odd shape doesnt look comfortable laying down in
brett
Tue 11-14-2006
That reminds me of one of those heart shaped bathtubs you would find in Vegas lol :P
OrionFL79
Sat 12-09-2006
the tub was cold because it is steel if the room was rellly hot then i getcha
diamond (im black)
Fri 03-23-2007
Anyone mind sharing where this damn thing is..
Act Of Depression
Wed 04-18-2007
You feel the difference because its the temperature of the people who died in the tub vs the real temperature. patients were sometime drowned during "therapy". so it is their souls that make the tub so cold.
Jesica
Sat 03-01-2008
Aaaah! That explains it! :-)
Lynne
Sat 03-01-2008
It looks so horrible, yet so (whats the word) um refreshing. id love to take a bath in it although it does give me the creeps. Anyone got any interesting stories to tell about it... would love to hear one.
Nicole**
Thu 03-06-2008
Anyone else notice that its sort of shaped like a person (legs to the right)? Then again, it's also shaped like a marshmallow Peeps bunny, so I don't know.
Tucuxi
Sun 09-28-2008
Despite it not being very nice to look at (of course, I understand that beauty wasn't the concern when they constructed these sort of tubs), I'd love to have that tub in my house.
Although it's most likely bigger than my bathroom itself... x]
It's like a jacuzzi, haha! :)
maria KLZ
Wed 01-07-2009
its like one of the halloween movies! when the lady gets her face like melted off! =/ i would deff wnt to go there and take a bath.... (nott)!
cassandra
Sun 02-15-2009
when i went their many years ago when my parents worked their, the tubs were not at all like that! they were just big enough for the person to fit in, and they filled them with ICE, the other treatment was ETC, straight jackets and labotomy.
bones
Sun 02-22-2009
i must find that tub and sit in it
1crazkid
Mon 08-17-2009
warm hydrotherapy has done wonders for rheumatoid arthritis, and a forerunner of modern jacuzzis was originally developed with that concept in mind.
STL girl
Mon 02-22-2010
It's amazing that with the rest of the place falling victim to the elements, it seems immune. I know that is the point of stainless steel, but still it looks amazing.
Misty Issel
Sat 05-01-2010
People used to wrap them in a canvas and make the patient sit in the tub for hours at a time
Nina
Fri 02-04-2011
P.S. Bones that is very true
Nina
Fri 02-04-2011
oh man!! i would love to have that in my house
Colin
Tue 07-19-2011

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