TY - CHAP M1 - Book, Section TI - Aquatic Exercise A1 - SALEM, YASSER A1 - BUKOWSKI, ELAINE L. A2 - Kisner, Carolyn A2 - Borstad, John A2 - Colby, Lynn Allen PY - 2023 T2 - Therapeutic Exercise: Foundations and Techniques, 8e AB - Water therapy, the use of water for rehabilitation purposes, has been considered beneficial to people’s health throughout history and dates back thousands of years.126 Ancient cultures utilized hot springs to improve circulation and relaxation.126 The use of water for restorative purposes has grown in popularity and has gained increased use in facilitating therapeutic exercise. The unique properties of the aquatic environment provide clinicians with treatment options that may otherwise be difficult or impossible to implement on land. Using buoyant devices and varied depths of immersion, the practitioner has flexibility in positioning the patient (supine, seated, kneeling, prone, side-lying, or vertically) with any desired amount of weight-bearing. A substantial and growing body of evidence describes aquatic intervention for rehabilitation purposes and indicates its beneficial effects for rehabilitation of a variety of clinical conditions. Overall, the available evidence indicates that aquatic intervention is safe and appears to have minimal to no adverse effects. Aquatic exercise has been successfully used for a wide variety of rehabilitation populations including pediatric,12,42,51,69,100,119,128,135 orthopedic,3,6,13,15,16,20,25,27,37,39,43,46,53,72,74,102,130 neurological,53,78,84,92,96 and cardiopulmonary patients.32,68,127 SN - PB - F. A. Davis Company CY - New York, NY Y2 - 2024/03/28 UR - fadavisat.mhmedical.com/content.aspx?aid=1196326189 ER -