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In the World of sports and healthcare today, many of the top doctors, hospitals, physical therapists, athletic trainers and personal trainers use HydroWorx to rehabilitate and train their patients and athletes daily. They find that HydroWorx accelerates recovery from injury and disease and provides a nearly weightless medium for exercise and conditioning.
Please see just a few of our healthcare, sports and eldercare clients below.
Manchester United is one of the most successful clubs in England, having won the FA Premier League/Futbol League fifteen times, FA Cup eleven times and the European Cup/UEFA Champions League twice. The club boasts the highest average attendance in English football for the majority of the past 50 seasons. They employ a HydroWorx 500 Series pool to rehabilitate and condition their athletes.
The U.S. Navy SEALs, arguably the toughest and most elite fighting force in the world, have enlisted HydroWorx technology to help keep the nation's soldiers healthy, fit and "at the razor-sharp tip of the spear" where there is no room for illness or error.
The Naval Special Warfare Group Four's human performance and rehabilitation division in Norfolk, Va. purchased a HydroWorx 500 pool and a mobile poolroom-on-wheels, enabling them to exercise their SEALs as well as those soldiers in NSW Group Two.
The Pittsburgh Steelers have made HydroWorx aquatic therapy a major part of their exercise and rehabilitation regimen during both of their recent Super Bowl seasons. The world champs requested we remove their obsolete therapy pool to replace it with a HydroWorx 1000 Series pool in the spring of 2005. The team went on to win it all that year and have now become the winningest team in the history of the NFL with their 6th title in 2009.
Dr. James Andrews is internationally renowned for his scientific and clinical research contributions and operating techniques for knee, shoulder, and elbow surgeries. His unparalleled skill as an orthopedic surgeon has led him to operate on many of the world's elite athletes, such as Jack Nicklaus, Emmit Smith, Roger Clemens, Charles Barkley, Bo Jackson, Troy Aikman, Drew Brees, and Donovan McNabb. Dr. Andrews and Baptist Healthcare's new, 143,000 square-foot, state-of-the-art facility in Gulf Breeze, Florida features two HydroWorx pools for the treatment of patients and athletes.
Dr. Andrews serves as Co-Medical Director for Intercollegiate Sports at Auburn University, Senior Orthopedic Consultant for Intercollegiate Athletics at the University of Alabama, and the orthopedic consultant for the athletic teams of Troy University, the University of West Alabama, Tuskegee University and Grambling University. Additionally, he is the Senior Orthopedic Consultant for the Washington Redskins Professional Football team, Medical Director for the Tampa Bay Devil Rays Professional Baseball Team, and the team physician for the Birmingham Barons Double A Professional Baseball Team, an affiliate of the Chicago White Sox. Dr. Andrews is also Co-Medical Director of the Ladies Professional Golf Association. He has been a member of the Sports Medicine Committee of the United States Olympic Committee, has served on the NCAA Competitive Safeguards in Medical Aspects of Sports Committee, and he currently serves on the Medical and Safety Advisory Committee of USA Baseball.
The world-renowned Johnson Space Center in Houston, Texas is where U.S. astronauts live and train; the facility is working on a project called the Center for Space Flight Performance and Research. This high-tech health center incorporated a HydroWorx 1200 Series pool as well as ThermalPlunge and PolarPlunge pools to keep its space travelers fit and healthy.
The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill's vaunted athletic department has been benefitting from eight HydroWorx plunge pools for years. Now, the Tar Heel teams, including the 2009 NCAA men's basketball national champions will reap further therapy and fitness benefits from running underwater in a HydroWorx 1100 Series pool.
A HydroWorx 500 pool is utilized at the Steadman-Hawkins Clinic in Spartanburg, SC to accelerate the rehabilitation process for injured professional athletes as well as those who just want to walk again without pain.
Dr. Richard J. Hawkins is a founding member of the American Shoulder and Elbow Surgeons and a consultant to the United States and Canadian Ski Teams. He is also the National Medical Director for the U.S. Disabled Ski Team, and was the Head Team Physician for the 1998 and 1999 Super Bowl Champion Denver Broncos. Recently, he was appointed Medical Director for the Colorado Rockies Baseball Team.
Dr. John McDonald, whose pioneering research and rehab techniques allowed the late Christopher Reeve to recover sensation and movement, enthusiastically supports hydrotherapy's role in the neuroscience field. He utilizes two HydroWorx pools at the Kennedy Krieger Institute in Baltimore, MD to treat brain disorders and spinal cord injuries in young subjects. For patients re-learning how to walk, HydroWorx's underwater cameras make it easy to watch and adjust movements during rehabilitation, speeding up the learning process. A body's buoyancy in water also assists in balance, lumbar stabilization, mobility, and personal confidence.
Randy Lerner, current Cleveland Browns owner and HydroWorx customer, took over as Chairman of the Aston Villa F.C. on September 19, 2006. His impact was felt immediately as plans for a new, state-of-the-art £8 million Training Ground were resumed. Lerner included a HydroWorx 2000 Series, a ThermalPlunge, and a PolarPlunge pool in the facility.
The 2008 Philadelphia Phillies' dream season culminated in a World Series win. The aquatic therapy room at Citizens Bank Park certainly befits champions. The best baseball team in the world stays in top shape with the HydroWorx 2000 Series underwater treadmill machine, as well as ThermalPlunge and PolarPlunge pools.
In the United Kingdom's Premier League, teams continually strive to improve. To build on perennial success and ensure Chelsea's players have a premier rehabilitation device in their physiotherapy room, Chelsea purchased HydroWorx's flagship model - the HydroWorx 2000 Series pool.
NBC and The Biggest Loser reality television program integrated a HydroWorx 500 pool into their contestants' training regimen. Jogging, plyometrics, and swimming are critical aspects of healthy weight-loss-and now they can be done virtually pain and injury-free on our underwater treadmill.
The Rugby Centre of Excellence, in Sydney, Australia, represents far more than just a home for the Waratahs and other New South Wales-run programs. The new facility is also utilized by Australian teams from the Wallabies to Sevens, Under 19's & 21's, and the National Training Squad.
In all, it is envisioned approximately two-thirds of Australia's professional players will make use of the facility and its HydroWorx ThermalPlunge and PolarPlunge pools, to facilitate recovery and decrease injuries.
The HydroWorx pool constituted a training staple for Alberto Salazar and the Nike-sponsored running program, "The Oregon Project". Salazar, who won the New York City marathon three years consecutively and is a fabled distance-running icon, set a goal to revitalize middle-distance and distance running in the United States. His goal to significantly improve US runners' performance through the use of world-class coaching methods enabled by advanced technology led him to HydroWorx.
Samsung has been an official sponsor of the Olympic Games since 1997 and it owns several major sports teams in Asia. The informed corporation was sure to include a HydroWorx 1000 Series pool in the newly constructed Samsung Sports Science Centre near Seoul, South Korea. Some of the world's top athletes, including Olympic hopefuls train at this astonishingly high-tech facility.
For 15 years Tim Grover, founder of Attack Athletics, trained one of the greatest names in basketball-- Michael Jordan. Today he is delivering injury rehabilitation and longevity training to athletes in a new 60,000 square foot sports performance and training facility in Chicago. It is at this location that Attack Athletics features a HydroWorx 2000 pool to support their training and rehab goals.
This cutting-edge facility is frequented by the many of the top professional basketball players of the NBA. Even the President of the United States takes advantage of this advanced athletic center. Barack Obama played basketball there on the morning he was elected.
Cindy Jarosch of St. Paul's Children's Hospital in Minnesota has found that the HydroWorx 2000's aquatic rehabilitation environment allows for incredible, upbeat recoveries in her young subjects. Moreover, the moveable floor design allows children of any age to safely benefit from hydrotherapy. Scores of other nationally elite children's hospitals, including the Children's Hospital of the King's Daughters in Norfolk, VA, and the Franciscan Hospital for Children in Brighton, MA employ our pools to help children of all ages overcome and adapt to the challenges of developmental delay, disorder, diseases, or accidents.
Summit Place Senior Campus in Eden Prairie, MN, Fountainview Place in Mishawaka, IN, and Valley Vista Care Centers in St. Maries and Sandpoint, ID are comprehensive communities that offer a variety of living arrangements and activities for the elderly and disabled. These leaders in the eldercare field recognize the important incorporation of hydrotherapy into their residents' exercise programs. HydroWorx technology improves balance, flexibility, and strength in seniors; in turn, it improves their way of life by increasing daily routine functionality.
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