RT Book, Section
A1 BUKOWSKI, ELAINE L.
A2 Kisner, Carolyn
A2 Colby, Lynn Allen
A2 Borstad, John
SR Print(0)
ID 1169773779
T1 Aquatic Exercise
T2 Therapeutic Exercise: Foundations and Techniques, 7e
YR 2018
FD 2018
PB McGraw-Hill Education
PP New York, NY
SN 9780803658509
LK fadavisat.mhmedical.com/content.aspx?aid=1169773779
RD 2024/04/25
AB Aquatic  therapy,  the  use  of  water  for  rehabilitation  purposes,  traces  its  origin  back  several  centuries.  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.  Aquatic  exercise  has  been  successfully  used  for  a  wide  variety  of  rehabilitation  populations  including  pediatric,8,30,39,49,55,73,78,84  orthopedic,1,4,9,11,12,13,14,19,21,27,31,41,50,68,80  neurological,41,54,56,61,63  and  cardiopulmonary  patients.23,48,77