TY - CHAP M1 - Book, Section TI - Aquatic Exercise A1 - BUKOWSKI, ELAINE L. A2 - Kisner, Carolyn A2 - Colby, Lynn Allen A2 - Borstad, John PY - 2018 T2 - Therapeutic Exercise: Foundations and Techniques, 7e AB - Aquatic therapy, the use of water for rehabilitation purposes, traces its origin back several centuries. The use of water for restorative purposes has grown in popularity and has gained increased use in facilitating therapeutic exercise. The unique properties of the aquatic environment provide clinicians with treatment options that may otherwise be difficult or impossible to implement on land. Using buoyant devices and varied depths of immersion, the practitioner has flexibility in positioning the patient (supine, seated, kneeling, prone, side-lying, or vertically) with any desired amount of weight bearing. Aquatic exercise has been successfully used for a wide variety of rehabilitation populations including pediatric,8,30,39,49,55,73,78,84 orthopedic,1,4,9,11,12,13,14,19,21,27,31,41,50,68,80 neurological,41,54,56,61,63 and cardiopulmonary patients.23,48,77 SN - PB - McGraw-Hill Education CY - New York, NY Y2 - 2024/03/29 UR - fadavispt.mhmedical.com/content.aspx?aid=1169773779 ER -