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Hydrotherapy in Neuropatients
Hydrotherapy is indicated for the neuro-surgical patient where the desired goals are to:
- decrease tone
- stimulate movement
- retrain and stimulate righting reactions
- augment and increase the range of weak movements
- retrain centralized, that is rotational, patterns of movement
- retrain reciprocal patterns of movement
- access functional movement patterns
- encourage and develop efficient breathing control and voice production
- produce psychological effects
- increase cardiovascular fitness
- offer opportunities for recreation and socialization.
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