water therapy???

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cbe411
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Injury Description, Date, extent, surgical intervention etc: MVA in 2001, nerve graph in 2002, Median Nerve Transfer in 2004 and an unsuccessful Gracillis Muscle Transfer in 2006. I am living life and loving it! Feel free to contact me :)
Location: Grosse Pointe Woods, MI
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water therapy???

Post by cbe411 »

Hey have any of you had water therapy? I have heard of it with the kids but not with adults! Any help here is great! Thanks!

COurt xo
parisi
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Post by parisi »

Hi Courtney, i tried water therapy after my nerve transfer surgery,. i think by using the water as support for my shoulder from sublexing , it really helped. Also the water allows for easier resistence than using a weight attached to your arm. Give it a shot it can't hurt. I had good luck with it. Ed
EllenB
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Post by EllenB »

Another advantage of water therapy is the increased movement possible in an environment without gravity, for strengthening muscles after they're innervated. And weights can be added for movement in water, too - if that's part of the therapy.

Good luck!

Ellen
ronin
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Post by ronin »

This is weird--somebody just suggested I try out for a local swim team---they have a team for gimpy swimmers I guess---but her deal was she knew some stuff about water therapy and exercise ect. She said that with a spinal related injury, water type workouts are almost zero impact so there's no stress on the shoulder, neck, vertabrae ect. Plus your strengthening muscle, burning fat, cardio/aerobic workout....I may just go for this. One thing--it's been my experience that people stare at me when I swim. I don't like this and I can't shake it. Any other time I don't care who's lookin' at me do whatever---but there's something about swimming. Anybody else ever have this or is this one all mine?
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