Articles of Interest

Business

FACILITY

AED Lifesaving Equipment

Aquatic Therapy Temperatures

Emergency 101

Facility Standards

Recreational Water Illnesses

UV Light

LEGAL

Ethical Theory

Independent Contractor Agreement

Liability Release Waiver

Privacy in the Aquatic Setting

EQUIPMENT

Board Games featuring the Wonderboard

Collars for Core and Other Equipment Anomalies

Core muscle activation during aquatic resistance exercise performed with different devices

Equipment Addiction

A common question is “What equipment do I need? I’m just getting started in aquatic therapy.”
Here is the answer…

BUSINESS / PRACTICE

Assessment: Land/Water Connections

Assessments in Therapeutic Aquatics

Business of Aquatics: Therapy & Exercise

Continuum of Care: Obstacles Within

Documentation and Research for Alternative Aquatics

Effective Communication through Documentation

Evidence-Based Aquatic Therapy

Grant Writing: A Case Study

Helping Your Patients Financially

Indications for Warm Water Therapy

Justification

Marketing: It Can be Simple and Inexpensive

Medications (Excerpt from Chapter 5 of Ruth Sova’s book, AQUATICS – The Complete Reference Guide to Aquatic Fitness Professionals)

Monitoring Intensity

Optimal Discharge Options

Personal Protection for You and Your Clients

Practice and Documentation of Aquatic Therapy from Cigna

Preparing to Teach a Workshop

Pre-Programmed Protocols

Research in Therapeutic Aquatics

Safe Handling Techniques

Water Wheels Keep on Turning

Wound-Related Analysis

Writing for Publication

General

Aging

AKWA Spotlight: Donna Adler

An Introduction to Aquatic Therapy

Army Rehab

Breast Cancer Recover: A Paradigm Shift

Calming Fearful Patients

Case Studies in Water Exercise

Coherency Training for Coordinated Intent, Not Techniques

Current Theories about Aging

Diabetes Research Review

Functional Circuits

Energy and Breath

High-Intensity Aquatic Exercises Improve Physical Function and Reduce Falls among Postmenopausal Women

High-Intensity Interval Training

Laughter

Low Pressure Fitness

Myofascial Lines

Peer-to-Peer Learning: The Current State of Aquatic Exercise and Therapy Science

Periodization

Progression Principles

Return to Running/Walking Function After Injury

Symposium-IAFC Research 2014

Symposium Research 2012

The 100-Step Deep Water Test

The Importance of Breath

Therapeutic Noodle Progressions

Water vs. Land Walking

Diagnoses

AMPUTEE

Ai Chi for Individuals with Lower Extremity Amputation

Amputee: Missing Limbs and Abnormal Body Shape: No Barrier to Functional Aquatic Interventions

Amputee Photo 1 | Amputee Photo 2 | Amputee Photo 3 | Amputee Photo 4 |  Amputee Photo 5

Amputee: Figting the Good Fight

ARTHRITIS

Arthritis and Aquatics

ASTHMA

Asthma: Stay Above Water with Exercise-Induced Asthma

ATAXIA

Ataxia: Treatment Implications and Interventions

ATHLETE

Athlete’s Road to Recovery

Athletic Rehab

Athletic Rehab Training Program

Aquatic Athletic Rehab and Conditioning for Runners

Aquatic Athletic Rehab: Innovative Training Techniques

Aquatic Rehab for Recovering Athletes and Military Veterans

Eccentric Exercise in Rehab

BALANCE

Assessing Foot Placement

Balance and Gait Training

Better Balance Through the Clockwork Approach

Fall Prevention: Implications for Aquatic Therapy

Functional Balance

Get Up, Stay Up, Don’t Fall!

SHARP TIP

Slow Motion Walking and Balance

CEREBRAL PALSY

Energy expenditure and physical activity of ambulatory children with cerebral palsy and of typically developing children

DIABETES

Diabetes

Diabetes and Aquatic Exercise

DUCHENNE MUSCULAR DYSTROPHY

Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy

FIBROMYALGIA

Ai Chi for Fibromyalgia

Fibromyalgia: A Different Approach for Treating Fibromyalgia Clients in the Aquatic Environment

The effectiveness of aquatic physical therapy in the treatment of Fibromyalgia: a systematic review with meta-analysis

LYMPHEDEMA

Aquatic Therapy for Lymphedema from Breast Cancer

MULTIPLE

Aquatics for Individuals with Severe Multiple Disabilities

Aquatic Therapy for the Medically Complex Patient

Complex Medical Patient

Frailty: What is it and How Might Aquatics Change its Outcomes

Polytrauma

Therapeutic Imperatives: Impulse Control, Focus of Attention, and Tension Reduction

NEUROLOGICAL

Aquatic Sensory Processing

Facilitating Gait in Individuals with Neurological Dysfunction

How to Deal with the Lion in the Room: Pain Neuroscience Education and Exercise

Neuromuscular Conditioning

Neurons That Fire Together Wire Together

Peripheral Neuropathy

Sensory Integrated Imagery

Sensory Integration for Pre/Post-Surgery

Sensory Integration for Pre/Post-Surgery Rehabilitation

The Vagus Nerve

OBESITY

Obesity and Relaxation

ORTHOPEDIC

ACL Rehab

Aquatic Exercise and the Shoulder

Beyond Hip – Balance and Coordination Exercises for the Lower Extremities

Breath and Core

Challenges with Deep Water and Lumbar Stabilization

Clients with Knee Problems

Corrective Exercise Programming for Shoulders

Exercise Replacement Chart

Extension and Function

Five Key Exercises for Hips

Gluteal Amnesia

Hip and Back: Issues and Solutions

Hip and Spine Basics

Interactive Posture

Hypermobility: Recognizing its Impact on your Exercise Consideration

Joint Hypermobility Syndrome

Kyphosis: My Hunch is…It’s Kyphosis

Knees: ACL Post-Op Phase #2 – Aquatic Protocol

Lumbar Spine – Movement Dysfunction: Recognize, Correct, Heal

Lumbar Stabilization: Aquatic Management of Low Back Pain

Lumbar Stabilization using UCT and PNF

Lumbar Stabilization – Why and How?

Ortho Replacement Exercise Chart

Prehab for Total Joint Replacement

Progressive Foundation Building

Shoulder Impingement Rehabilitation Recommendations

Shoulder Injury: Aquatic Rehab Goals

Thoracic Spine: Mobility and Postural Control

Total Joint Replacement Prehabilitation

OSTEOPOROSIS

Bone Density and Physical Function in Postmenopausal Women after a 12-month Water Exercise Intervention

Bone Density and Practical Applications

Bone Density Summary 2005

Building Bone Density – Research Issues

Deep Water and Osteoporosis

Effect of Water Exercise on Bone Density among Postmenopausal Women

Effects of 24 Weeks of Deep Water Training on Bone Density

Osteoporosis and Aquatic Exercise: New Research, Novel Techniques

Osteoporosis Interventions and Aquatics Response

PAIN

Aging without Pain

Chronic Pain

Inflammation

Pain-Free Movement Techniques

Pain Journaling

Persistent Pain Education

The effect of regular aquatic exercise on improvement of physical fitness level, static and dynamic balance capacity, and muscular activity in elderly arthritis patients

Water Exercise as a Tool for Chronic Pain and Chronic Stress Management

Watsu for Relief of Chronic Pain

PARKINSON’S DISEASE

Parkinson’s: Dystonia and Parkinson’s Aquatic Techniques

PEDIATRICS

A Body-Mind Technique for Children

Ai Chi for Kids

Aquatic Kids’ Core

Aquatic Therapy Progressions for Pediatrics

Autism, Sensory Processing and Learning

Autism Spectrum: Focused Therapeutic Aquatics

Fun for Improved Function

Sensory Processing and Motor Planning

Sensory Processing Pediatrics and Beyond

Swimming for the Severely Challenged Child

Working with Children in the Water

TBI

Pool Safety and the TBI Patient

VISION

Swimming with Visual Impairment

WOUNDED WARRIOR

Wounded Warrior

Aquatic Rehab for Recovering Athletes and Military Veterans

Techniques

AI CHI

Ai Chi

Ai Chi Balance Research

Ai Chi Balance and Trunk Stabilization

Ai Chi Documentation Form

Ai Chi as an Integrative Practice: Mental and Physical Health

Ai Chi for Individuals with Lower Extremity Amputation

Ai Chi Progressions

Clinical Ai Chi Low Back

Clinical Ai Chi Shoulder

The Effects of Ai Chi for Balance in Individuals with Chronic Stroke: A Randomized Controlled Trial

AQUASTRETCH

AquaStretch – Accentuating Intuitive Movement

AquaStretch Overview

AquaStretch: Rehabilitation Utilizing AquaStretch Techniques

AquaStretch: Ride the New Tidal Wave in Aquatic Therapy

Now That I Can Bench-Press a Buick

Thinking Outside the Box with AquaStretch

HALLIWICK

Halliwick Method: Applications for Individuals with Orthopedic Conditions

Halliwick Methodology

OTHERS

Applying CranioSacral Therapy in the BioAquatic Environment

Aqua Motion Movement

Bad Ragaz LE and Trunk Patterns Effect on Increasing Lumbar Spine Flexibility and Mobility

Brain Gym in the Pool

Breathing for Improved Outcomes

Core Ideas from Three Teachers

Conceptualized Framework of Spinal and Pelvic Stabilization using Alternative Methodology of Pilates and Yoga

Energy and The Breath

Facilitation of Ideal Movement Starts wtih a Stable Base

The Heavy Concept

Loaded Movement Training

Meridians Part 1

Meridians Part 2

Meridians Part 3

Movements in Touch

More Movements in Touch

Muscular Tension Release

Pilates Principles for Abs, Posture and Balance

Relaxation Technique

Rhythmic Movement Aquatics (RMA)

Shinzo Newsletter June 2013

Stress and Relaxation

SykorovaSynchro Method

Why to Use Unpredictable Command Technique

YOGA

Aqua Yoga for Arthritis

Bringing Viniyoga to the Aquatic Environment

Helping our Aqua Yoga Clients Build Their Best Selves Despite Arthritis

Yoga and Aquatic Therapy and Rehabilitation

Yoga Philosophy, Poses and Aquatic Therapy