If your body weight is 200 pounds and you are of average height, in our therapy group, your body weight is reduced to only 20 pounds. Just this dramatic reduction starts a healing process for your body. From the moment you plunge your body into the warm, relaxing water depth of our therapy pools, your body’s healing process immediately begins by:
- Reduction of aches and pains,
- Reduce tension and anxiety,
- Facilitate better circulation and respiratory flow,
- Provides a greater range of body mobility, and
- Puts a smile on your face.
All this from simply stepping in the pool. But starting a daily warm water exercise routine will dramatically increase the wellness benefits.
A very good way to look at it is this: Imagine you have two people, the same age and health, walking up a hill. It’s not a steep hill, just a gentle incline. One person carries 100 pounds on their back in a backpack, while the other does not carry any additional weight. Which would get to the top faster and with less effort? Now imagine doing that every day. That’s basically what your body endures every day that you walk, move, and exercise. All the weight of your body is on your hips, your legs, your feet. However, when you immerse your body in one of our therapy pools, this weight is reduced by 90%.
That’s the buoyancy benefit: a reduction in your daily load through decreased weight on your body.
Expanding the benefits of exercise
One of the main drawbacks of exercise is the impact it has on your body. Not to say that exercise isn’t important, just that it affects the body with every pump, jump, and load. An example is running, with each stride your body weight is forced down onto your hips, legs and feet. Yes, the special shoes help, but the impact remains the same. Even walking gently still puts most of your body weight on one hip, one leg, and one foot.
Whereas, in the warm and deep body of water, this impact of body weight is reduced by 90%. Giving you all the benefits of exercise, without the damage of impact. But surprisingly, exercising in the warmth and depth of our therapy pools takes on a whole new perspective. Daily routines in the outside world weigh on your body. Routines like; getting up from your chair, going up a few stairs, moving an object from one place to another, things you do every day that affect the health and well-being of your body. However, doing those same routines in the deep warm water body actually improves your body. Because each of these movements is performed without the added weight of your body, they are performed within warm water, amplifying your body’s circulation and blood flow, and providing unloaded muscle movement.
The simplest movements in a deep, warm body of water become an essential component of your daily wellness routine. And all this is possible thanks to the depth of our therapy pools.
By contrast, conventional spas do not offer this same type of valuable benefit. Their shallow water depth only provides a very small reduction in their body weight. These types of spas cannot create any movement therapy for you and do not provide any buoyancy benefits as their small reduction in body weight does not help your body. As demonstrated above, the buoyancy benefit is the key ingredient to an effective aquatic physiotherapy routine.