Hydrotherapy

I thought that 150°F seemed kinda hot, but I guess not. "The hydrotherapy tanks and pools are all generally set at warm temperatures, never exceeding 150°F (65.6°C). Because the patient often performs resistance exercises while in the water, higher water temperatures become a concern as the treatment becomes more physically draining. Because of this, many hydrotherapy baths are now being set at 95-110°F (35-43.3°C)."

Well, when you think that our own bodies are usually between 96 and 100 degrees F (98.7 is just a median norm), it isn't quite as amazing. Particularly when one thinks about the temperature for hot tubs and jacuzzis.
Also, heated water is a bit more tolerable, when it isn't touching the head.

This room is in really good shape. (nice to see)

A hot tub or jacuzzi averages around 105-110 degrees.

Most likley they used cold water thats what they did to chill people out back then

i worked in a nursing home and these were not only used for hydro, they were used for daily baths. it did have a chair on the front that was detachable so you could wheel it into the patients room,if they couldnt bear weight a lift was used to lower them in the chair , then you could wheel them right to the tub, hook them up and use a pedal to raise it and away they went. from my experience, most didnt like going up in the air, and alot were freaked out by the water going almost up to their necks. as for the temps. if it got to a certain temp an alarm would go off so you knew you were too hot. ours hand a hose built in and a few levers for soap and cleaner, some had a built in scale too .

i just dont understand why they didnt sell off the equipment that they leave in these places doesnt make sense to let it rot away in an empty building

compare this and nowadays equipments.

Such a clean looking machine. The picture is fantastic! Looks to date from the 50s or 60s?

Now that brings back memories.
I also worked at a nursing home some yrs back as a director of maint.
We had 4 of those Century tubs w/chair lift, yes! they are still used to this day.

The Leonard Valve Co. supplied the mixing valves for these, they were all limited to no more than 110 F as per NYSDOH, anything over 110 F is considered scalding

So my first thought was right. 150 F is pretty f-ing hot!

Did anyone else notice the soap dispenser? <g>

I beleive tha tis what 'We' call a unique light fixture.

Nice light fixture, shines right into the hydrotherapy tub, wink, wink....

This is among my first comments/posts, whatever, to Opacity. I want to apologize in advance if it becomes longwinded (Again). I have wanted to address a more or less recurring question that comes up; Why did they just leave that equipment there?

I sort of have an answer based upon my own experience. I spent quite a few years working for the government(well 18+)so my thoughts about this are based on observations, as well as hands on.

Ok, here goes (IMHO). When the government (state or federal heretofore referred to as Gov cause I am lazy sometimes HEH HEH insert Govt worker joke here) purchases, equipment they contract from company X for Y number of (lets say pretty institutional gray desks.) to be manufactured and shipped to warehouse Z for distribution to various facilities. Now imagine that the Gov contracted with X to produce Y=20000 desks per year for five years (Please, Please just making a point) you end up with a lot of desks right? Now all the pretty institutional green offices will be supplied with pretty gray desks plus a few left over. (Whew, am I long winded or what?) Getting long, time to shorten. Five years is over new contract for 100000 fake wood desks to replace gray ones, warehouse full of fake wood desks, old facility closes, the hell with grey, we'll use fake wood at new place, just leave the gray ones there we'll get them later if we need them. (Although they almost never do.). This applies to a lot of different stuff. I must admit though it was a lot more common 15 or 20 years ago (Age of abandonment of the buildings Motts photographs for us.)


Ok sorry way long.

Motts keep em coming just be safe man.

Umm....Grifspop. That is most defiantly a super high capacity soap dispenser...well....I may be off the mark. It might be just a sooooper soap dispensing light fixture.

*Mumbles nearly incoherently "Man why did I put up that first comment/post, now my fingers are going to just get carried away"*

I AM a recreational Opacity user I aint no junky, I can stop, sure I know I can.

*trembles* Anytime man, I can Stop sure

Face it, L, you are addicted. The first step to acceptance is to admit it to yourself.

Then, join the support group at Lyric's forum.

I have been looking at this site for a couple of days and it seems like the way that things were left it was more like a bomb threat or something instead of it closing!!! i don't know maybe its just me

i worked in a nursing home and these were not only used for hydro, they were used for daily baths. it did have a chair on the front that was detachable so you could wheel it into the patients room,if they couldnt bear weight a lift was used to lower them in the chair , then you could wheel them right to the tub, hook them up and use a pedal to raise it and away they went. from my experience, most didnt like going up in the air, and alot were freaked out by the water going almost up to their necks. as for the temps. if it got to a certain temp an alarm would go off so you knew you were too hot. ours hand a hose built in and a few levers for soap and cleaner, some had a built in scale too ...posted by Jan

I also worked in a nursing and on a
med / surg unit for many years and found these tubs indispensible when caring for patients who were not ambulatory or who were temporarily incapable of taking care of their activities of daily living alone. As for the '"cold water therapy" reference........I never one single time saw or heard any nurse or doctor order such TX or even refer to such TX being utilized in the past. If I were taking care of an elderly relative with limited or no mobility in my home.....this would be a welcome piece of equipment in order to reduce my workload and stress levels. This tub is still utilized on many NHCU's and Med /Surg units around the country .

eeek. looks like a washing machine.

I repaired those tubs for 15 to 20 years nursing home tubs.look at the new ones at pgs medical.com.Those old ones were like tanks.and they are still being used

Indeed, they are what we always called the whirlpool tubs in the LTC facility where I worked, a lot of the patients loved bath days because it was comfy and relaxing. If you've seen any of the home model "step in" tubs that are being advertised (there's a door to just step in then sit and fill the tub) they sort of resemble these only without the need for the hydraulic lift. Okay, I'll stop now.

Good Heavens, there really is a somewhat modern ...Soap Dispenser.

Oh man I wish I had known about this site when LST69 posted her comment nearly 5 years ago. I worked for NASA for 22 years and she is absolutely correct. *Come back LST69*

@LST and Larry D
Not just governments to this. Business to, because once something has been amortized it's worthless. Selling it means you now have taxable income which means additional headaches. Also you need to store this shit somewhere for sale. It really makes more sense to abandon it in many cases.

I was a bath aide at a nursing home from 1988-1992. It was in a Mennonite based community, and we took great care of our stuff. We had one of these that a rep from the company said it looked "showroom"...They remodeled a bathroom and we got to decide what model of tub we wanted in there. We chose the "new" Century tub (tan) with all the bells and whistles that it came with standard. We actually (the three bath aides) all agreed that we liked the simplicity of the old tub and would have done without the dispensers and extra levers and such. I still give a bath ever now and then and do like our new tubs with the lifting side door. BUT the sanitizing system and whirlpool mechanism always seems to need repaired and one tub out of two is almost always out of commission. Back in the day, cleaning and sanitizing these old greens was easy. Can't believe I found a site about Century tubs which I loved back in the day. By the way, I would get residents over their nervousness of being raised in the air for the first time by saying "isn't it Star-Trekky?" and they would laugh. Once in, they loved coming back it was so relaxing.

I sure could use one of those tubs today. 8 degrees in MN. My aching bones long for a nice deep tub. I attend therapy at a pain clinic with a warm therapy pool. They keep it at 98 degrees because we work out. The hot tub with jets is at 110. I prefer the pool because I can float. The only comfortable postition for me.