The Use of Hydrotherapy for Early Progression of
Rehabilitation Protocols
Presented By: Steve Kemp, MSc, BSc, Elite Football Physiotherapist & Physiotherapist to the Senior England Men’s Team at Perform at St. George’s Park
The webinar will give an overview of the criterion based rehabilitation philosophies used at Perform at St. George’s Park, and how hydrotherapy is used in the early phases of rehabilitation to challenge the athletes to stimulate improvements in neuromuscular control and progressively load. It will include videos of examples of these progressions and discuss how these link directly to some of the ‘out of water’ progressions in the rehabilitation.
Kemp will discuss the following topics during the webinar:
- How progression from each phase of rehabilitation can be achieved earlier using hydrotherapy
- How bilateral loading can be started in the water as soon as the wounds have sufficiently healed
- How Kemp uses his pool depth, jets, and treadmill for proprioceptive challenge in multiple planes of movement
- How such neuromuscular challenging rehabilitation in a safe environment can allow the ‘out of water’ exit criteria to be achieved much earlier and can lead to reduced rehabilitation times
Attendees will learn:
- Early rehabilitation protocols and safe progressions
- Multi-planar protocols for challenging proprioception
- The effect of "in water" rehabilitation on "out of water" progression
*Continuing Education (you must attend the live webinar in its entirety):
Athletic Trainers: One CEU available for Athletic Trainers through BOC (Course ID: P3003-2002)
All Others: Certificates will be available if you wish to petition your certification agency for CEUs.
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.
