Hydrotherapy in Perth

Hydrotherapy involves using water to support and protect the body while performing exercises that can aid in recovery. Water temperature and pressure can be adjusted to suit each patient’s needs, making hydrotherapy an effective and comfortable treatment option.

Get Back on Your Feet Faster with Hydrotherapy

Many people suffer from pain and injuries that make it difficult to exercise, and this can lead to a number of health problems. It’s difficult to stay healthy when you’re in pain, but it’s also tough to overcome the injury or ailment when you can’t exercise.

Hydrotherapy gives joint pain relief even when you exercise through buoyancy. This allows patients to exercise and have theapy sessions with less pressure and weight on their joints.

Archer St Physiotherapy Centre offers hydrotherapy as a way for you to ease your pain and start exercising again, even if you’re unable to do so on land. Hydrotherapy is a low-impact way for you to improve your health without putting any extra strain on your body. Hydrotherapy can be used to treat a wide variety of conditions, including arthritis, joint pain, post-operative rehabilitation, and muscle injuries. Our team of experienced physiotherapists will work with you to create a customised hydrotherapy program that meets your specific requirements.

Advantages

Advantages Of Hydrotherapy

Hydrotherapy has been studied extensively for its efficacy and benefits. Among the benefits and uses of hydrotherapy are:

Pain Management

The water’s buoyancy and warmth ease joints and muscles. Additionally, being submerged in water provides support, enabling people with back or neck pain to relieve themselves and perform exercises that may be difficult on land.

Increases Muscle Strength and Elasticity

Hot water allows muscles to relax and stretch more easily. Moving water creates resistance, which increases with the speed and size of the motion. Strengthening muscles may be achieved through this resistance.

Minimising Effects of Trauma/Injury

When muscles or joints are injured, they may not be able to support weight, making exercise difficult or impossible. By using hydrotherapy during injury recovery, people can maintain their physical fitness while healing, as well as speed up their recovery.

Pain Free Exercise

It may be impossible to exercise on land if you have arthritis or other conditions that affect mobility and joints. Water’s buoyancy relieves stress on joints, allowing exercise to be performed without pain. Deep water running allows injured runners to practice their biomechanics before they are physically able to return to the road. As the water depth increases, so does the body’s support.

Why Choose Archer St Physiotherapy Centre for Hydrotherapy

Archer St Physiotherapy Centre offers hydrotherapy as a form of treatment that can help reduce pain, speed up recovery, and allow you to stay comfortable and mobile. Hydrotherapy is a fun and effective treatment that uses water’s natural buoyancy and resistance to help support the body and relieve pain.

Frequently Asked Questions

FAQ's about Hydrotherapy

When should hydrotherapy be used?

Most conditions that result in pain, stiffness, weakness, deconditioning or low fitness, balance problems or difficulty moving, such as walking or ascending stairs, can be helped by hydrotherapy.

The early stages of your rehabilitation will be focused on gentle exercise. The exercises can get much more challenging when you need it or when you are able to handle more difficult exercises.

Hydrotherapy requires stable medical conditions. If you have high blood pressure, make sure it is steady, and in some cases, controlled with medications. Before you get in the pool after surgery involving a cut in your skin, the wound needs to be covered with a waterproof dressing. It is best to obtain clearance from your surgeon or doctor or to speak with your physiotherapist before beginning hydrotherapy.

What issues can hydrotherapy treat?

Children and adults of all ages can benefit from hydrotherapy. With aquatic physiotherapy, you can manage musculoskeletal, neurological, and cardiopulmonary (heart and lung) conditions.

For people who find exercising on land difficult or painful, exercising in water may be the most beneficial. Standing up to your waist in water, you only carry 50% of your bodyweight through your back and legs. When you are chest deep, you are only taking 30% of your body weight.

Those with painful joints and weak muscles may find moving in water easier because of this. Learning to move in water or swim is an excellent option if you are unable to walk or find walking difficult after an injury.

How effective is hydrotherapy?

Research shows that doing aquatic exercise results in similar improvements in walking, balance, pain and quality of life as land-based exercise in many conditions. The most research has been done in hip and knee arthritis or joint replacements, other types of arthritis, older adults, fibromyalgia and low back pain.

There are also studies in neurological conditions, showing benefits for people with Parkinson’s Disease, stroke, multiple sclerosis and traumatic brain injury. Similarly, research in pregnant women, paediatrics, and heart and respiratory conditions demonstrates that people can benefit from aquatic exercise.