Leading Facilities
The Royal Bucks rehabilitation center has a purpose built, 8.5 metre hydrotherapy pool. This is heated to 34º C and has hoists, or slides, for assisted entry, or to welcome wheelchair users.
Our pool is open to inpatients and outpatients, offering high levels of safety and performance to both. Well trained physiotherapy staff supervise the pool and each individual session, to help ensure your activity is productive.
Specialist equipment for aquatic exercise is available, designed to help you utilise the properties of water. Adjustable resistance jets for enhanced exercise and jet massage are built into the pool.
Direct Physical Benefits
Warm water promotes circulation and provides a supportive, relaxed environment. Part of feeling free to take part in exercise which would otherwise be difficult, to make progress with rehabilitation.
-
Specific Needs
Your physiotherapist works with you, to build a programme of hydrotherapy activity which helps to improve your core issues and symptoms.
-
Wider Health
Muscular strength across your body can be enhanced, along with cardiovascular fitness. Overall health improvement allows greater exercise.
-
Pain Management
Alongside reducing exercise strain, hydrotherapy can help directly with muscle pain and joint stiffness, or feelings of restriction.
Lessening tightness in muscles, or exaggerated reflexes is a key part of hydrotherapy. To eliminate interference with movement and feel back in control of your body.
Benefitting Most Conditions
Whether hydrotherapy is being used alongside other types of therapy, or alone, the advantages this offers can be beneficial to a wide range of people.
Stroke patients, or those with spinal damage are regular users. People with neurological conditions such as muscular dystrophy find the soothing freedom helpful, as will anyone with chronic pain, or joint problems.
We may ask you to take part in an individual assessment before starting hydrotherapy, to ensure you will benefit and to see whether other therapies would assist.
Our rehabilitation team are always at hand, to advise and to make sure the environment is safe for you. There are in reality few physical barriers to hydrotherapy, one of the most used and valuable facilities at our centre.
