Aquatic Therapy is a treatment modality which entails a purposeful progression of skills focusing on psychosocial, cognitive, leisure and motor performance utilizing the properties of water.
While in the pool a therapist can assess and treat the following:
Joint Flexibility and Muscle Strength
Pain (Chronic or Acute)
Cardiovascular Endurance
Abnormal Tone (Hyper or Hypo)
Coordination and Movement Patterns
Balance and Safety Reactions
Trunk stability, Postural Alignment
Circulatory efficiency, respiration
Spatial awareness
Functional Transfers
Ambulation
Aquatic therapy can be performed individually or as part of a group process. Call today for details or to schedule and appointment!
| ADVANTAGES OF AQUATIC THERAPY
Decreased Pain
Chronic Pain patients have reported a decline in pain after one visit!
Patients following surgery are able to exercise in the pool almost immediately with no pain.
Improved Range of Motion and Flexibility
Following and injury or surgery, a patient is able to regain flexibility more quickly with aquatic therapy
Decreased Swelling
The water pressure aids with improving circulatory response
Improved muscle strength and tone
Increased cardiovascular function
Reduced stress
Increased circulation
Increased strength and endurance
With a quicker start to the rehabilitation process patients are able to see strength returns more quickly.
Increased balance and coordination
Water allows resistance to be added and taken away immediately. Water allows challenges to be added in multiple directions at once, enhancing balance and coordination.
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Water is a wonderful medium for therapy services, especially warm water. There are many things that happen naturally while in water that aid the recovery from an injury.
Water is very beneficial in the early onset of rehab following
an orthopedic injury.
Waters compression helps to reduce pain and swelling of multiple
joints in the body.
Water in pediatrics provides a means for relaxation of otherwise
tense musculature and it provides an alternative for gravity reduced
ambulation activities.
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