Aquatic Therapy is a specialized form of rehab. Water has been the best environment to achieve full function regardless of the injury. Water improves joint motion and flexibility. the warmth of the water and its massaging effects allow muscles to relax while helping to reduce pain. The natural bouyancy reduces gravitational pull and lessens compressive forces, hence making exercises much easier to perform than on the land.

Benefits of Aquatic Therapy:

• Warm water facilitates muscle relaxation and increases peripheral circulation
• Vircosity of water provides resistance for strength training
• Warm water stimulates body awareness, balance, and trunk stability
• The reduction of gravitational forces in the pool allows the patient to stand and begin gait training and strengthening exercises without causing further damage to healing structures
• Warm water and bouyancy results in decreased pain sensitivity
• Improvement of patient morale and confidence can be establishes by providing a positive in which to function
• Improve joint range of motion
• Mascular re-education to improve power, endurance, or stability
• Allow for sports specific functional training
• Rehabilitation of traumatized tissues by applying graded and progressively more taxing stresses on injures tissue