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Aquatic Therapy and Rehabilitation

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Topic: Clinical 
CEU: 1.5 units
Contact Hours: 15 hours

Clinical Foundations, Therapeutic Exercise, Safety, and Certification Review

Aquatic Therapy and Rehabilitation is a clinical education course for rehabilitation professionals, aquatic therapeutic-exercise practitioners, aquatic fitness professionals, students, certification candidates, and administrators involved in aquatic rehabilitation or aquatic programming.

This course reviews the foundations of safe and effective aquatic practice, including professional roles, scope, ethics, clinical reasoning, movement science, aquatic principles, pool safety, screening, emergency planning, infection prevention, outcome measurement, exercise prescription, documentation, and aquatic intervention planning.

This course covers:

• Professional foundations of aquatic rehabilitation
• Scope, credentials, and professional roles
• Ethics, privacy, and inclusive aquatic practice
• Evidence-based reasoning and choosing water
• Applied anatomy and movement terminology
• Kinesiology, biomechanics, and exercise physiology
• Physiology of immersion
• Physical properties of water
• Aquatic biomechanics and movement modification
• Aquatic equipment mechanics and selection
• Pool environment, accessibility, and operations
• Screening, contraindications, and precautions
• Emergency planning and response
• Infection prevention and facility risk management
• Evaluation and outcome measurement
• Exercise prescription, dosage, and progression
• Documentation, legal considerations, and reimbursement
• Shallow-water and deep-water therapeutic exercise
• Gait, balance, transfers, and functional task training
• Aerobic, resistance, mobility, and neuromotor programming
• Session design, cueing, and leadership
• Motivation, adherence, and behavior change
• Programming for diverse populations
• Transition to independent aquatic exercise
• Ai Chi, Halliwick, Bad Ragaz, aquatic PNF, spinal stabilization, neurologic training, manual practice, pediatric aquatic practice, and specialty-technique triage

The purpose of this course is to help learners understand aquatic therapy and rehabilitation as more than water-based exercise. The course emphasizes clinical reasoning, safety, professional responsibility, appropriate progression, measurable outcomes, and the connection between aquatic performance and meaningful function outside the pool.

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What Will You Learn?

  • Differentiate aquatic therapy, aquatic rehabilitation, aquatic fitness, adapted aquatics, swimming instruction, aquatic bodywork, and independent aquatic exercise
  • Understand professional scope, credentials, competence, supervision, and legal boundaries in aquatic practice
  • Apply ethics, privacy, dignity, accessibility, inclusion, and professional-boundary principles in aquatic settings
  • Use evidence-based reasoning to determine when aquatic intervention is appropriate
  • Explain aquatic movement science, kinesiology, biomechanics, exercise physiology, and physiology of immersion
  • Apply aquatic principles including buoyancy, hydrostatic pressure, drag, viscosity, turbulence, depth, temperature, and body position
  • Identify screening needs, contraindications, precautions, red flags, and safety risks before aquatic participation
  • Understand emergency planning, infection prevention, facility safety, accessibility, and risk management
  • Select outcome measures, exercise dosage, progression criteria, and documentation elements for aquatic rehabilitation
  • Apply clinical reasoning to shallow-water exercise, deep-water exercise, gait, balance, transfers, functional training, and neuromotor programming
  • Design aquatic sessions using appropriate cueing, leadership, motivation, and adherence strategies
  • Modify aquatic programming for diverse populations and transition participants toward independent aquatic exercise when appropriate
  • Compare specialty aquatic approaches including Ai Chi, Halliwick, Bad Ragaz Ring Method, aquatic PNF, spinal stabilization, neurologic training, manual aquatic practice, and pediatric aquatic practice

Course Content

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  • Aquatic Therapy and Rehabilitation Course Content

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