Client Services: Aquability: Services Offered

Services Offered:
Aquatic physiotherapy is a treatment carried out in the water by a physiotherapist, where the properties of water are used to achieve specific therapeutic goals. Water is the ideal medium for pleasure and enjoyment, as the buoyancy it offers helps children and adults with a disability to move with greater freedom and to execute movements that are impossible on land.

Assessment, program planning and referral by an aquatic physiotherapist to the most appropriate aquatic activity program.

Groups for adults and children:
Water familiarisation classes for pre-schoolers. Basic water and safety skills are taught and developmental milestones are promoted by reinforcing land-based skills. A parent/carer is
needed to assist children in the water.

Mobility and fitness classes for school aged children and adults. Reinforcement of water and land based skills, safety strategies and stroke development are an important part of
these sessions.

Stroke development classes (after school) for school aged children.

Individual sessions in three (3) to six (6) - week blocks for all ages based on special needs. Blocks may be repeated during the year.

Saturday morning programs operate at the Captain Ron Patrick Hydrotherapy pool from 9:00am – 11:00am, for children and adults who cannot access the pool during the week. Each swimmer will have had an aquatic assessment prior to attending. The swimmer will need to be accompanied by their own carer who is responsible for changing them and conducting the aquatic program that has been designed for them. A physiotherapist is in attendance for consultation.

Training courses are available for carers/therapists assisting people with disabilities in the water. This includes training in regional centres of NSW.

Recreational aqua fitness programs are run throughout the Sydney area.

Special Conditions
Prior to use, all service users must have a medical screening form completed by their doctor to certify that they are able to be immersed in a heated pool. Due to the one-to-one nature of the care needed in the water, aquatic activities rely on carer and voluntary support.