Pediatric Water Specific Therapy-Halliwick Course

We are very excited to sponsor and invite Johan Lambeck to our campus to offer the first Pediatric course in Water Specific Therapy/Halliwick in the United States in over 10 years!   Water Specific Therapy (WST) covers all essential neuromusculoskeletal aquatic therapy goals including postural control, one of the most important concepts in rehabilitation. WST ranges from muscle strengthening, increasing range of motion, decreasing pain to core stability, agility, fall prevention and perturbation training. WST can be used to evoke subtle muscle contractions that are unable to be generated on land.  It is an aquatic therapy based on  elements of the Halliwick 10 point-program swimming method. WST focuses on  exercises that use the fluid-mechanical properties of water such as flow conditions (turbulence), waves of transmission and metacentric effects (using the change of gravity and buoyancy induced torques).  WST was developed by a team of physiotherapists in Switzerland in the early…