[InHisHands]

Have you tried aquatic therapy? Did you have good results with it? Why or why not did you like it?

[lisashea]

Exercising in warm water was extremely helpful for me. I bought a house with a heated pool and put the temp up to over 100 degrees.

I could not bear any weight when I started walking in the hot pool for hours at a time. Eventually( a few months later) I could bear weight on the ground and began to be able to walk again withouth crutches. Without the help of the pool and hot water, I don't think I would have gotten rid of the crutches.
The hot water would ease my pain and make it bearable to walk.

I had previously tried Aquatherapy with a physical therapist but found that I would be worse after the therapy. The exercises they had me doing did not help but hurt my situation.

So, in summary, I have had very good and also very bad experiences with water therapy. doing it myself, in my own back yard seem to work great, but under the care of a therapist - I did not improve but got worse.

That's my 2 cents,
Peace and hope,
Lisa

[InHisHands]

Just wanted to bump this...

my Dr wants me to try some moving around in a pool soon.

anyone else have thoughts on this?

[emilys gramma]

WARM water......i was in warm water therapy, but the water was only 80 degrees which for those of us in the pool was way too cold.....many of us dropped out because it was more harm than good....we were freezing, and you can't walk or move around while your lips are purple.........

so make sure the water is nice and warm...........like lisa said, 100 would be great........i too like the jacuzzi ...that is always nice and warm, (103) however, now i can't handle the jets and neither can frank.

[CZZ74]

this is my favorite therapy, the water must be at least 93 degrees. you weigh half your weight in water- so it is such a relief to be somewhat weightless . I love it. However use caution- I overdid- and paid dearly with a major 3 day flare up. Like everything else you have to begin slowly. too much can be almost as bad as nothing at all.IF you take it easy you can go more freequently which is the goal. enjoy.

[septmystic]

This worked wonders for me. But....BUT...my patch came off and of course with heat you have to be careful and limit the time in hot water. It helped with movement in my arms and hands and eased pains when i used then under water. The physical therapy dept. allowed me to use their pool for $3.00 a day but I had to quit because they had too many others who needed the pool and my insurance only covered so many visits. The solution, join a healthclub...talk about expensive pools. So for now I wait. If you can use it, try....it can't hurt.