Listening Time — 24:12
If you swim or do water aerobics, you know the benefits of water exercise. But what is aquatic physical therapy? And who is it best suited for?
Physical therapist Paula Geigle describes the elements and benefits of aquatic physical therapy. Learn how many who struggle to move on land can move forward in health with aquatic physical therapy.
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Paula Geigle, PT, PhD, is a researcher at Kernan Rehabilitation Hospital in Baltimore, Maryland. She is co-principal investigator for a Department of Defense-funded aquatic exercise study on spinal cord injury. Dr. Geigle has 31 years experience in aquatic physical therapy. She is a past president and secretary of the Aquatic Physical Therapy Section of the American Physical Therapy Association. She also has served as its journal editor.