Hydrotherapy
Hydrotherapy
What is hydrotherapy?
Hydrotherapy is a therapeutic approach that involves the use of water to promote health and wellbeing. It involves specific exercises in a warm water pool. The temperature is usually 33-36 degrees which is warmer than an average pool for therapeutic reasons and feels like a nice warm bath.
How can warm water help?
- Eases muscle and joint aches and pains
- Supports your weight, which helps to reduce pain and lets you move your joints better
- We can use the water as resistance to increase your strength
What conditions does hydrotherapy help with?
- Arthritis
- Rehabilitation from injury such as surgery, soft tissue injury, sprains/strains and more
- Circulatory Disorders
- Parkinson’s Disease
- General fitness
- Respiratory issues
- Falls Prevention
- Neurological Disorders (MS, MND, Peripheral Neuropathy, Stroke)
Our therapists can come work with you in your own pool, or we can meet you at a community pool close to where you live! We’ll do a thorough assessment and develop a treatment plan designed just for you. We’re happy to take you through the exercises if you need a little extra motivation or just aren’t confident to do it on your own. Or if you just need a plan to get you started and make you better – not worse – we can create a program that you can do on your own whenever the mood strikes.
Our experienced Physiotherapists and Exercise Physiologists are happy to work with you to help you achieve your goals and get out of pain and back to what you love doing.
Call the clinic on 0415 775 071 for further information or to book a hydrotherapy assessment with one of our physiotherapists or exercise physiologists.
Why water works?
- Reduces pain and increases blood flow: warm water naturally reduces pain and gets the blood moving around the body, relieving inflation and swelling
- Relaxes and rehabilitates muscles: muscles relax and unwind in warm water. As your temperature rises with the heat of the water circulation increases helping to heal injured tissues and rehabilitating muscles and joints.
- Strengthens through resistance: the water provides resistance forcing each exercise to be done slowly, making it more precise and effective for muscle strengthening
- It’s hard to fall over in water: the buoyancy in water empowers you to exercise independently – what you can’t achieve on land, you can likely achieve in water with limited pain or risk.
- Psychological well-being: It is enjoyable being in the water, liberated from pain, risk and restrictive movements, freedom and fun become great motivators to exercise.