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Aquatic therapy encompasses a broad set of approaches and techniques, including aquatic exercise, physical therapy, aquatic bodywork, and other movement-based therapy in water (hydrokinesiotherapy). Treatment may be passive, involving a therapist or giver and a patient or receiver, or active, involving self-generated body positions, movement ...
Halliwick Aquatic Therapy is a system-oriented aquatic motor (re)learning approach, which includes elements of the Ten-Point-Programme. It uses a holistic task-directed approach within the context of the International Classification of Functioning, Disability and Health (ICF) , in particular postural control, normalizing muscle stiffness, and ...
Watsu is a form of aquatic bodywork used for deep relaxation and passive aquatic therapy.Watsu is characterized by one-on-one sessions in which a practitioner or therapist gently cradles, moves, stretches, and massages a receiver in chest-deep warm water.
As its name suggests, this form of aquatic therapy or aquatic rehabilitation [2] is performed in water, and it can take place in swimming pools at aquatic leisure centres and/or in home pools. Being a form of aquatic therapy, hydrogymnastics aims to improve the physical and psychological health and well-being of an individual.
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Hydrotherapy, formerly called hydropathy and also called water cure, [1] is a branch of alternative medicine (particularly naturopathy), occupational therapy, and physiotherapy, that involves the use of water for pain relief and treatment. The term encompasses a broad range of approaches and therapeutic methods that take advantage of the ...
WaterDance or Wata (abbreviation from the German WasserTanzen [1]) is a type of aquatic therapy which was developed in Switzerland independently of Watsu.While wearing nose clips, a person is gently guided underwater, pulled, swayed, and "flown" while being regularly brought to the surface for breath.
alternative therapy (two senses: a second choice among scientific therapies, or alternative medicine) androgen replacement therapy; animal-assisted therapy; antibody therapy; antihormone therapy; antiserum therapy; aquarium therapy; aquatic therapy (nonscientific and scientific forms) aromatherapy; art therapy; Auger therapy; aurotherapy ...