Blue Lagune Therapy offers pool therapy, which provides patients an ideal atmosphere for progressive early intervention, with activities and exercises designed to achieve positive treatment results. When aquatic therapy is recommended, our therapist will develop a customized exercise program, including hands-on therapy, for each patient.

Water provides a safe, comforting, and relaxed environment for gentle, weightless exercise. Simply standing in water that is chest deep reduces your weight by 80%, and waist-deep reduces your weight by 50%. By using the buoyancy of the water, we are able to reduce the stress on the involved joints, soft tissue, and musculature...allowing more movement and function with less pain. Patients are able to progress more rapidly by beginning in a reduced stress environment in the water, and slowly progressing the patient back into a normal environment outside of the water.

Aquatic intervention may include the following:

• Therapeutic Exercise
• Functional Training
• Sport Specific Training
• Balance Training
• Strength Training
• Range of Motion (ROM)
• Gait Training
• Muscle Re-education
• Deep water Cervical/Spinal Decompression
• Aquassage
• Badragaz
• Burdenko Exercise

Who will benefit from Aquatic Therapy?
Aquatic Therapy is helpful for anyone that is in need of physical therapy or rehabilitation. Experience and research has shown that an aquatic environment is the most beneficial environment to rehabilitate in, especially for early intervention. Aquatic Therapy can benefit any of the following conditions:

• Orthopedic conditions: Total and partial joint replacements of the Shoulder, Hip and Knee
• Neurological disorders: Stroke, Traumatic Brain Injury, Spinal Cord Injury
• Operative spine procedures of the Cervical, Thoracic and Lumbar Spine
• Joint pain - Neck, back, shoulder, elbow, wrist, hands, hips, knees, ankles, feet
• Muscular and soft tissue injuries and pain
• Joint Injures
• Disc Disease, Stenosis, Sciatic and Radiculopathy
• Chronic Pain and Fatigue Symptoms
• Shoulder and Rotator Cuff injures
• Fibromyalgia
• Multiple sclerosis
• Any other condition, pathology, injury, disorder that requires rehabilitation needs.

Benefits of Aquatic Therapy (through effects of buoyancy, hydrostatic pressure, viscosity, currents, and temperature of the water)

• Alleviate pressure on joints and spine
• Decrease pain and inflammation
• Decrease swelling and edema
• Decrease muscle spasms and spasticity
• Improve coordination, stability, and balance
• Increase range of motion and flexibility
• Increase endurance
• Increase sensation
• Increase circulation in the veins and in turn benefits the heart and lungs
• Increase core strengthening and stability
• Promotes improved muscle strengthening and endurance
• Promotes cardiovascular fitness
• Promote muscle relaxation