For one Facility, HydroWorx is a Necessity
Posted on October 8, 2012 | Posted in: Aquatic Therapy, HydroWorx, Physical Therapy, Water Therapy, Water TreadmillExecutive director of Country Meadows Retirement Communities, Kim Eichinger, speaks very highly of the HydroWorx pool. For her facility, the HydroWorx aquatic therapy pool and underwater treadmill is something they could not live without. They are a great form of exercise for a broad range of residents. From the McKnight’s article, I couldn’t live […]
Read MoreAquatic Therapy Program Helps Improve Mobility
Posted on September 17, 2012 | Posted in: News StoriesAquatic Therapy Program Helps Improve Mobility The Dove Healthcare Center has implemented an aquatic therapy program at its facility. T.J. Ivancevich uses this program, which implements a HydroWorx Pool, to overcome his battle with cerebral palsy. Aquatic therapist, Chase O’Keefe, works with T.J. on a weekly basis. He has realized the drastic improvement of […]
Read MoreHydroWorx Underwater Marathon Proves There Are No Barriers to Helping Special Ops through Technology
Posted on September 5, 2012 | Posted in: News StoriesHydroWorx Underwater Marathon Proves There Are No Barriers to Helping Special Ops through Technology They will be young. They will be old. They will be scarred, some inside, some out. Most will fly in from all parts of the country. Above all, they will be determined. As participants in the world’s first underwater marathon, they […]
Read MoreI Couldn’t Live Without…HydroWorx Underwater Treadmill
Posted on September 1, 2012 | Posted in: UncategorizedI Couldn’t Live Without…HydroWorx Underwater Treadmill. By Kim Eichinger Kim is the executive director of fitness for Pennsylvania-based Country Meadows Retirement Communities The treadmills are placed in pools with an average water temperature of 92 degrees; most residents use one while standing/walking in about four feet of water. Eichinger says that walking on underwater treadmills […]
Read MoreSecret Weapon for Olympic Athletes Made in Susquehanna Valley
Posted on August 7, 2012 | Posted in: News Stories’Secret weapon’ for Olympic athletes made in Susquehanna Valley” Lori Burkholder and the WGAL 8 News team made a trip to HydroWorx this summer to check out our facility and products. Jeff Groh, runner at Lower Dauphin high school also came along to test out our product and talk about the experience. After getting onto […]
Read MoreHydrotherapy for Rheumatoid Arthritis
Posted on July 17, 2012 | Posted in: Aquatic Therapy, HydroWorx, Physical Therapy, Rehabilitation Tips, Uncategorized, Water Therapy, Water TreadmillRheumatoid arthritis is a frequently misunderstood condition. Many people — even professional physical therapists — confuse it with osteoarthritis (OA), a similar condition that stems from different causes and demands a separate treatment approach. Unlike OA, rheumatoid arthritis can affect patients at any age and is not caused by the deterioration of joints. Instead, rheumatoid […]
Read MorePlunging Into Physical Therapy
Posted on June 12, 2012 | Posted in: News StoriesPlunging Into Physical Therapy By TOM BAYLES H-T Health + Fitness Correspondent, Herald-Tribune It was back at the dawn of this century that I was cleaning a rug in my living room, and for no apparent reason a searing, white-hot flash of pain shot throughout my […]
Read MoreA Growing Challenge
Posted on June 1, 2012 | Posted in: News StoriesA growing challenge By: Daniel McCann It’s a snowballing health crisis: Just as the number of obese Americans continues to swell, so do the ranks of those considered severely, or morbidly, obese. And the latter pose new challenges to long-term care operators interested in serving them — challenges ranging from orienting staff to this […]
Read MoreSqueezing Out Power Differences, Young and Old
Posted on May 3, 2012 | Posted in: AgingThe following blog post is an advertorial piece written by Mary E. Sanders, PhD, FACSM & Cathy Maloney-Hills, RPT. Mary E. Sanders, PhD, RCEP, FACSM is a clinical exercise physiologist, Division of Wellness and Weight Management in the School of Medicine, University of Nevada, Reno, Director of WaterFit ®/Golden Waves® and advisory board member for […]
Read MoreAnnouncing the First Ever HydroWorx Underwater Marathon!
Posted on April 25, 2012 | Posted in: Aquatic Therapy, HydroWorx, In the News, Rehabilitation Tips, Sports Medicine Resources, Sports Stories, UncategorizedJames R. Andrews, M.D., Athlete’s Performance & HydroWorx join together to raise money for Eagle Fund with the first ever Underwater Marathon on September 9, 2012. The Eagle Fund, a designated fund within the Andrews Institute Foundation, enables wounded warriors to rehabilitate at the Andrews Institute for Orthopaedics & Sports Medicine and Athletes’ Performance using […]
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