“Aquatic Treatments for Acute & Chronic Pain”

Presented By: Therapeutic Aquatics, Inc.

Julia Meno-Fettig, ATRIC, CTRS

Specific warm water aquatic therapy techniques can provide the ideal nurturing pain free environment that chronic pain patients need to assist with relaxation, coping and relief from symptoms. Learn new and effective modalities to treat pain holistically using a combination of methods to calm the responses of the autonomic nervous system. You will learn an interactive aquatic approach to enable persons with chronic pain have a healthier connection with themselves so they will have the tools necessary to avoid pain, lessen the duration and increase active independence.

Lecture

Acute and Chronic Pain Dysfunctions

Pain Detection

Pain Sites

Dysfunctional Responses to long term pain stimulus

Aquatic Therapy Resources and Technique Inventory

Aquatic Therapy Treatment Protocols for Patients with Acute Pain

Physician Prescribed and Informed

Temperature specific to injury needs

Duration of treatment and specific functional goals

Aquatic Therapy Treatment Protocols for Patients with Chronic Pain

Pre-treatment meeting

Assessment

Empower the patient

Provide an environment conducive to relaxation and rehabilitation

Safe

Protective and reassuring

Patient Compliance and Attendance

Community Follow Through

Patient evaluations

Pool Lab

Safe equipment use

Vertical Positioning and depths used in the water for passive and active treatments

Treatment strategies in the vertical position

Horizontal positioning in the water for passive and active treatments

Treatment strategies and techniques in the horizontal position

Treatment Techniques: (exteroceptive, proprioceptive, neuromuscular, myofascial)