The popularity of knee water exercising therapy is gradually
increasing, practicing knee therapy in the water suits people of any size or
age and for different severe injury levels. Water with its upward force helps
bearing some of your joint pressure and enables you to practice those knee
workouts you cannot perform on land. You can choose any water exercise that
suits your knee. Some American clinics offering advanced water exercising
programs, and according to them, any person having incontinence, seizure or
wounds should avoid practicing knee water exercise. It is always better to
consult a physical therapist or a doctor before doing this type of therapies.
Aqua Aerobics
It is a technique, in which cardiovascular workouts performed
inside water; you can select the water levels according to your needs such as
go deep if you require exercise that is more difficult or for light workout use
swallow level of water. You can practice few peculiar aqua aerobic routines for
your knee such as calf rotations, calf raises, lungs and squats. Practice a
single set of 10 times during your initial stage and then increase the sets
up-to 10 sets of ten times for every routine. According to a renowned expert of
aqua aerobics, any person undergone knee surgery should avoid any knee
extending exercise that employs resistance.
Aqua Jogging
You can perform aqua jogging exercise on both deep and
swallow water levels for your knees. Aqua jogging therapy in swallow water
includes simply walking or jogging within the pool and without being worried
about falling or receiving injuries if performing on land. Deep water aqua
jogging practiced with wearing an aqua belt to keep you afloat, the main
advantage of deep-water aqua jogging is that, your feet remains above the pool
bottom that prevents impacting your knees. Practice deep-water aqua jogging in
proper interval such as use initial 60 seconds only to walk and then run for 15
seconds by applying an interval of 10 minutes; repeat this technique as advised
by your physician.
Therapy Pools
Therapy pool technique involves using water-strengthening
jets for effective water workouts. In simple words, you can say that these types
of pools consists strong jets of water to provide you resistance in standing &
balancing there. Start with walking against the water jets current and then
move to jogging. Many therapy pools provide warm water jets with mild pressure
in order to give you gentle knee massage and providing a convenient space to
exercise stretching. These pools have temperature control mechanism that a
regular pool lacks. Sit before a steam jet and put your knees against the
streams coming from jet, after few seconds stretch your leg slowly and then
repeat again.
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