Hydro Therapy
Water is fun! The majority of people enjoy water and it is an integral part of life. Water allows us all to achieve marvelous feats of movement which can be performed on land only with difficulty if at all. New knowledge regarding the physiology of hydrotherapy and new techniques using patterns of movement adapted to water and more water specific exercises are ensuring that hydrotherapy is becoming increasingly accepted as a medium for rehabilitation in its own right.
One authority believes that the use of hydrotherapy antedates that of all other modalities employed in physical medicine. To go into water -one of only two environments available to the human-is a unique experience. Here the body is simultaneously acted upon by two forces-gravity (or down thrust) and buoyancy (or up thrust)- providing us with the possibility if three dimensional exercise not available in the medium of air, and allowing movement and non-weight bearing activities to occur before they are possible on land.
Dr. Prashant a post graduate in Physiotherapy, faculty in the SDM Physiotherapy College, has a greater understanding of the advantages of activity in water; increasing number of facilities is being offered in our center. Hydro therapy is both therapeutic and recreational for the children of our center. It is interesting to note that two of our children have won both a gold and silver medal in the International Special Olympics held at Dublin, Ireland in the year 2003. These children were ably assisted by Dr. Prashanth and Mr. Seetharam Upadhaya, a national level swimmer.
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