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WATER WELLNESS
WATER WELLNESS
Whether your young or old, water based exercise and treatments
are now part of everyday life. We highlight the benefits of taking
to the water and look at some slightly different ways which you
might like to indulge yourself using the healing power of water
Water jet massage
Hydrojet massage is a form of
underwater pressure treatment in
which you lie in a special bath. With
waterjet massage, special nozzles
shoot a stream of warm water at
varying pressures.
The advantage of waterjet massage
is that these different pressures allow
the treatment to reach different levels
of the body from the skin to
underlying muscle layers to the
internal organs. Lying in the bath is
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rom babies who are still too young to now when it comes to the opportunity to relaxing in itself and the pressurised
walk through to pensioners who find swim. The benefits are there for all to see. warm water, varying from .5 pressure
swimming easier than walking there’s a Swimming is fun for all age groups. It’s units to a maximum of 7, feels very
common theme which links the young also one of the few activities that you pleasant. Treatment generally lasts up
and the old when it comes to water. can participate in as a family. A lot of to half an hour with time given for
Baby swimming is booming, and a grandparents take their little ones to you to adjust to being in the water.
recent poll showed an 84% increase in classes. One school in the West Midlands This treatment can help to stimulate
the number of babies (under the age of has 95% of their Saturday morning muscles without causing any strain on
two) taking part in swimming sessions. sessions involve just dads. Play activities the heart. For this reason, it's popular
The elderly aren’t far behind and are in water help with the human bonding with athletes to help recover from
being helped financially by local process allowing important interaction strenuous exercise or training.
authorities starting to offer free use with babies that enable them to feel
of swimming pools. secure and safe. With mothers generally
Certainly both ends of the age accepting the lead role in parental
spectrum are being given special emphasis bonding it is revealing that this
experience may be dad’s time for
The Swimming Teachers
relationship building.
Association (STA) is the best Swimming also boosts confidence in
place to start if you are
the young and the old. It also keeps both
considering enrolling your baby
age groups active, fit and healthy.
or toddler into swimming lessons.
Research has shown that swimming can
Classes can cost anything from
have a positive impact on sleeping and
£3-£5 an hour at a local authority
eating patterns for the young and old.
pool. For private lessons, you are
looking at an average of £100
It’s important to note, that your child
per term. These costs may vary
won’t be co-ordinated enough to learn
from location to location.
how to swim properly until he/she is at
Contact STA on 01922 645097
least two or three, but you can get
www.starfishswimming.org to
him/her to feel confident and relaxed in
find your nearest swim school
the water, and make swimming a fun
way to exercise, so that he/she wants to
www.aquababies.co.uk offers
continue to participate in water activities
lessons and classes for the
as they grow older. And from then on
youngest of swimmers
swimming can be a way of life right
The healing power of a shot of warm water is
dramatic
through to great age!
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