Benefits of Hydrotherapy
Hydrotherapy benefits people by using the buoyancy of water and low impact movement to get accelerated results in the following ways:
- Improves walking tolerance and endurance
- Assists gait training
- Can reduce load on painful joints and muscles
- Improves flexibility
- Increases core stability
- Relaxes the body
- Pain relief
- Improves circulation
- Supports weakened muscles and limbs
- Increases workout intensity
- Less stress on the body
Gait training using an underwater treadmill can be more clinically effective than traditional walking underwater or on land, intensity modification through the ability to control the height of water and the ability to incline and if needed height adjustable bars.
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