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Aquatic Therapy Programming (book)

Price: $39.00

This Aquatic Therapy Programming book is the first all-inclusive guide to setting up and delivering an aquatic therapy program.

In this guide you will find the essential information for designing, implementing, and managing an aquatic therapy program. You will be amazed at how comprehensive this guide is as it covers the full aquatic treatment of orthopedic injuries and addresses topics ranging from program format to risk management and pool design.

The book also provides 28 plans of care for the treatment of injuries to the lower extremities, upper extremities, and the spine. This book on Aquatic Therapy Programming gives you all of the necessary tools you'll need to build your own plan of care for aquatic therapy. You'll learn the basic properties and philosophies of movement in water and how to apply them to aquatic therapy, how to use water depth during the diverse stages of treatment, and how to use apparatus to facilitate exercise.

Next, this knowledgeable author, Joanne Koury, describes her distinctive six-phase approach to designing aquatic treatment plans.

Joanne’s unique steps include:

Assessment and early treatment
Strengthening and local muscular endurance
Balance, coordination, and cardiovascular conditioning
Task-related and sport-simulated skills development
Transitional aquatic therapy
Maintenance and fitness

Next, the book gives details on how to implement the six-phase plan of care in the treatment of special orthopedic injuries. You'll find 28 specific plans of care for acute injuries to the shoulder region; elbow, wrist, and hand; pelvis, hip, and thigh; knee; lower leg, ankle, and foot; lumbar, thoracic, and cervical spine; and trunk and neck.

This comprehensive book covers many characteristics of risk management and safety planning, including legal responsibility, safety and rescue equipment, pool maintenance, client screening, and staff hiring and training. It also explains how to devise a safe and functional aquatic-therapy facility, offering ideas for new pool designs, adapting an existing pool for therapeutic use, and using small swim tanks to fulfill your needs for an aquatic therapy program.

Photographs throughout help to enhance descriptions of exercises used within the treatment plans. You can use these plans of care as a starting point for developing a treatment program in the pool or for modifying these suggestions to meet the needs of your own individual clients.

lastly, Aquatic Therapy Programming talks about the administrative concerns of aquatic therapy facility managers

This offers a great reference for any aquatic rehabilitation specialist, athletic trainer, sports physical therapist, sport physician, or an other rehabilitation professionals who work with orthopedic patients.