The Use of Hydrotherapy for Gait Re-Education
Presented By: Kerry Glendon, MSc BSc(Hons), mCSP, mMACP, mACPSEM, mAACP, Clinical Specialist, Perform at St. George’s Park
Hydrotherapy can reduce weight-bearing to 20%, enabling re-education of gait to commence very early in a patient’s recovery. Many patients are discharged from the hospital partially weight-bearing or are unable to fully weight-bear due to pain. Patients often adapt altered movement patterns when mobilizing that can subsequently be difficult to correct when fully weight-bearing.
The use of underwater cameras provides immediate feedback to the patient, allowing them to instantly alter their gait. This webinar will cover how to
identify dysfunction of walking and running gait on land. The presentation will detail exercises in the pool that may improve the altered movement patterns and the outcomes gained using aquatics with patients at Perform, St. George’s Park.
Attendees of this webinar will learn:
- How to identify many common gait dysfunctions
- Several ways that hydrotherapy can be used for early gait re-education
- Specific hydrotherapy exercises that are beneficial in restoring a proper gait pattern
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how the use of aquatic therapy during recovery periods can revitalize and amplify athletic performance.
According to the Institute for Integrative Healthcare Studies, the use of contrasting temperatures – also known as contrast therapy – has been used as a healing tool for thousands of years. The contrast between heat and cold is believed to exert a physiological effect on the body’s pain mechanism.
In this webinar Lance and Lindsey will share ways to reduce soreness and enhance muscle recovery in your athletes using water therapy. They will demonstrate how water therapy has given their athletes at Michael Johnson Performance an edge by performing recovery exercises in the pool to actively flush the body, add additional caloric ‘burn’ to the weekly microcycle, and incorporate joint motion in deloaded states.
Attendees will learn how they can see better outcomes by utilizing active recovery in the water rather than passive recovery during breaks from intense training sessions in order to keep the muscles moving as they heal from exercise-induced microscopic tears.
*Continuing Education (you must attend the live webinar in it's entirety):
Athletic Trainers: One CEU available for Athletic Trainers through BOC (Course ID: P3003-2000)
All Others: Certificates will be available if you wish to petition your certification agency for CEUs.
