Our staff provides personalized Aquatic Therapy and reports the following benefits:
- Warmth of water facilitates relaxation and peacefulness as water is same temperature as skin. Pt feels free from personal limitations due to gravity elimination. Water allows joints to offload weight and allows increased range of motion.
- Justification of water. Individualized program for prevention of injury, impairment, functional limitation/disability that is unachievable on land. For example; stretches are easier in water than land.
- Benefits of Aquatic therapy: The whole body benefits by movement. Muscles that aren’t usually used are used in water in order to maintain balance. Loss of balance is slowed due to benefits of buoyancy.
Common Precautions and Contraindications not limited to the following:
- Open areas of skin
- Rash or skin condition
- Infectious disease i.e. flu, common cold
- Diabetes
- Orthostatic hypotension
Information was found from Aquatic Therapy University
