What Is Hydrotherapy?

Hydrotherapy is any activity performed in water to assist in rehabilitation and recovery from e.g. hard training or serious injury. It is a form of exercise in water and is a popular treatment for patients with neurological and musculoskeletal conditions. The goals of this therapy are muscle relaxation, improving joint motion and reducing pain.

Benefits of hydrotherapy

• Relieve pain and muscle spasm

• To gain relaxation

• To maintain or increase the range of joint movement

• To re-educate paralysed muscles

• To strengthen weak muscles and to develop their power and endurance

• To encourage walking and other functional and recreational activities

• To improve circulation (trophic condition of the skin)

• To give the patient encouragement and confidence in carrying out his exercises, thereby improving his morale

• The warmth of water blocks nociception by acting on thermal receptors and mechanoreceptors, thus influencing spinal segmental mechanisms

• Warm water stimulates blood flow positively, which leads to muscle relaxation

• The hydrostatic effect may relieve pain by reducing peripheral oedema and by dampening the sympathetic nervous system activity

Physio 101 is one of the few clinic in Singapore that can offer hydrotherapy. So get in touch today to book an appointment with one of our physiotherapists.

Changing rooms are available poolside.