A therapy is a Medical care applied to a person Malade, with an aim of helping it to cure.

Used only, the word “therapy” more particularly indicates the practice of the Psychothérapie.

In general, one employs the word Traitement for the catch of drugs in Western medicine, and the compounds of the word therapy to indicate specialized treatments: (Chemotherapy, Radiotherapy, etc), nonmedicamentous (Kinesitherapy or Physiotherapy), or belonging to other approaches of medicine (Musicothérapie, Ergothérapie, Réflexothérapie, Luminothérapie, équithérapie, (lasertherapie), etc).