Parkinson
Back to previous pageHydrotherapy benefits for parkinson patients.
Aquatic exercise provides benefits in the following areas:
- Training for daily activities
- Range of motion
- Strengthening
- Flexibility
- Balance training
- Coordination
- Aerobic training
- Postural training
- Fun
Water exercise provides the patient multiple benefits, which land based exercise doesn’t deliver. These Advantages are:
- Aquatic exercise provides movement freedom, thereby increasing strength and range of motion.
- Warm water can alter muscle tone and reduce pain.
- Increased tolerance for exercise because of the soothing effect provided by warm water.
- Muscles relax, lengthen and the stiffness reduces because of the water.
- The combination of the buoyancy or weightlessness and resistance in water improves muscular strenght and endurance.
- Aquatic exercise generates body awareness and enhances the posture. Becuase of the dynamic water environment the body awareness heightens and enhances motor control during waling.
- Slow moving water provides sensory feedback and a longer response time. This combination allows patients to practice their balance in a save environment.
- Aquatic exerxise provides an improved bowel frequency.
- Aquatic exercise decreases isolation and depression.
- Aquatic exercise provides a feeling of well-being.
Methods which can be used
Sources
Parkinson’s disease aquatic exercises, by Ann E.P O’Nihill, Carla Cothran, Barbara Habermann (2001)
Aquatic Therapy Versus Conventional Land-Based Therapy for Parkinson’s Disease”An Open-Label Pilot Study, by Jamile Vivas, Pablo Arias, Javier Cudeiro (2011)