2217 – Rehab for Amputees and Individuals with Body Form
Irregularities
Intermediate / Pre-Symposium 4-hour Pool Workshop
(Classroom: 7:00-9:00 am / Pool: 9:20-11:20 am)
Faculty:
Sue Grosse, MS
Please Note: It is recommended participants have familiarity
with basic hydrodynamic principles.
COURSE DESCRIPTION:
Being an amputee, whether from trauma or due to congenital
circumstances means an individual has a body form that varies from the norm.
Learning motor control over that body can be a challenging experience. The Halliwick Method, because of its use of specific movement
enhancing progressions, is an ideal therapeutic intervention for amputees and
other individuals with body form irregularities. Learn how to implement Halliwick methods and techniques with this population.
Emphasis will be on client involvement in pace of the therapeutic process
through development of independent movement in the aquatic medium. Client
control of personal progress will be stressed. Unique characteristics of the Halliwick method make it not only a highly appropriate
aquatic methodology for amputees, but also allows for easy implementation and
early positive results in assisting an individual with body form irregularities
to gain or regain, aquatic, as well as land, mobility.
COURSE OBJECTIVES:
1) Increase
awareness of six issues faced by amputees or other individuals with body form
irregularities.
2) Identify
characteristics of the Halliwick method that directly
influence inhibiting issues.
3) Examine
progressions for water entry and exit, movement orientation, buoyancy control,
vertical rotation, lateral rotation, and combined rotations.
4) Explore
strategies for controlling buoyancy and balance during aquatic movement.
5) Gain ideas
for program implementation, integrating Halliwick
into existing therapeutic and fitness programs.
FACULTY: Susan J. Grosse, MS, currently president of Aquatic Consulting & Education Resources,
has over 40 years experience in aquatics as a teacher, as well as in a variety
of leadership roles at the local, national, and international levels. She is
past president of the American Association for Active Lifestyles and Fitness
and past chair of the Aquatic Council of AAHPERD. Her publications include work
in adapted aquatics, lifeguarding, instructional swim, water exercise,
posttraumatic stress disorder, crisis management, contagion, and program
administration. She received the ATRI Tsunami Spirit Award in 2006 and the
International Swimming Hall of Fame John K. Williams Award in 2009.