Exercise therapy
Therapeutic swimming
Therapeutic swimming belongs to balneotherapy. Social insurance covers therapeutic swimming for patients under 18. The swimming is often therapeutic in itself, since it has very positive effects on the locomotor system, the circulatory system, the respiratory tract and the nervous system. Therapeutic swimming can make use of certain components of normal swimming, or the whole of it with specific loads, on specific distances. It includes therapeutic swimming movements that are used to control muscle tone, stretch certain muscles and strengthen others. In case of circulatory and certain respiratory diseases the load should be increased after defining the load parameters. PTs and physiotherapy PEs are entitled to conduct such activities.