Course Description 

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Overview:

This course will focus on the effectiveness of aquatic therapy in the management of persistent pain. Pain Education will clarify why immersion in water, chest deep, uniquely address persistent pain. Passive and active aquatic therapy interventions, both hands-on and hands-off, will be practiced. Ai Chi, turbulence, wave manipulation, and sensory integration in both the shallow and deep-end will be explored. Case discussions and problem solving is a collaborative component of this course. Research protocols, interventions and dosage will be explored to apply to clinical practice. This is for clinicians with a good understanding of the persistent pain and want to enhance their patient care, offering a management tool and bridging their clients to community aquatic programming.

Topics include:

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• Review of the physiology of immersion and its effects on persistent pain

• Client-centred approach to assessment, aquatic adaptations and intervention
  design

• Addressing intensity, dosage, and outcomes in the care of the complex client

• Practice of active and passive aquatic therapy, hands-on and hands-off,
  interventions

• Design and communication of treatment prescription and progressions.

• Research on Aquatic Therapy interventions for people with Persistent Pain

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Course Format:

 

• Lectures

• Hands-on, in-pool practice sessions with quizzes, group presentation

• Demonstration treatments with patients (facility dependent)

• In-pool case-based learning/testing

• Clinical case videos

• Aquatic therapy equipment provided to try

Program Objectives

By the end of this course, participants will be able to:

 

1. Understand the advantages, limitations, contraindications, and precautions of
   aquatic therapy for the client with persistent pain.

2. Optimize hydrodynamics to enable a client with persistent pain to participate
   in aquatic therapy and exercise.

3. Understand the intervention adaptations and options for active and/or passive
   aquatic therapy to address the goals of a client with persistent pain.

4. Explore the research fo persistent pain and aquatic therapy and apply to
   clinical practice.

5. Implement evidence-based aquatic therapy treatment plans and progressions.

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TO REGISTER OR HOST THIS COURSE

 

Send us an email aquaticrehabpt@gmail.com and we will notify you when an open course becomes available! ​