The AquaGaiter Aquatic Treadmill System with Display is a perfect addition to any facility wanting to offer rehabilitation, conditioning, or wellness. The combination of traditional treadmill training with the natural buoyancy, resistance, and heat of water offers phenomenal benefits above and beyond those of either standard treadmill training or aquatic therapy alone. The durable treadmill base offers an excellent platform for exercise while the attractive and user-friendly above-water display allows users to easily customize their speed and resistance level for more precise control over their workouts.
Through history the power of in-water movement has been shown to benefit many conditions. Aquatic therapy improves post-surgical recovery, and has been proven to reduce swelling and inflammation in joints, while buoyancy gives patients confidence and balance in each and every step. The low-impact, high resistance workout that the AquaGaiter Underwater Treadmill System provides can benefit most patients. It offers a cutting-edge treatment to your customer, and makes the AquaGaiter a perfect piece of fitness equipment for any pool. Take a standard swimming pool and add AquaGaiter to instantly enable the elderly, obese, and many other patients to exercise with limited to no pain plus reduced strain on joints and muscles.
Patients who experience chronic pain conditions like fibromyalgia or arthritis, neck or back pain, joint pain in the shoulders, hips, knees, or ankles, pregnant women, or patients recently recovering from surgery are ideal candidates for aquatic therapy with the AquaGaiter underwater treadmill. When you try to guard or protect an injured or painful area of your body, you decrease the flow of fresh blood to that area, and because blood flow stimulates healing, when you limit your physical movement when in pain you are interrupting the healing process. Additionally, movement limitation can trigger an increase in muscle spasms and joint stiffness, trapping you deeper in a pain cycle that will be difficult to escape from. Thats what makes the AquaGaiter a fantastic solution for rehabilitation - the treadmill training provides fresh blood flow and movement for faster healing, while the buoyancy, low-impact resistance, and heat of water makes it significantly less painful to move, allowing patients who are in significant pain to improve their health and progress with a more gentle, less painful rehabilitative process.
Advantages of Hydrotherapy over Land-Based therapy:
Water provides
buoyancy. In other words, it produces a counter-force to gravity, reducing its effect and lessening body weight by as much as 90%. That's good news for post-surgery patients or the injured. Many of them simply can't bear their own weight, making it difficult if not impossible for them to perform rehabilitation exercises on land. In water, though, buoyancy reduces the impact of movement on muscles and joints. This often means that patients can begin therapy sooner - which, in turn, helps them retain muscle mass, improve conditioning, and return sooner to their former everyday routines. Athletes especially appreciate the resistance of water. That resistance is applied in every direction, thus forcing more muscles, and more of any particular muscle, to react against it. The result of this is that people get a more comprehensive workout, often strengthening muscles they'd never even have engaged in land exercises. And strength isn't all that's improved! The multi-directional resistance of water also helps athletes and hydrotherapy patients improve their balance and flexibility. There's something else at work in hydrotherapy: a little thing called
hydrostatic pressure. This is the pressure a fluid exerts on a body. Patients with hypertension experience lower blood pressure and improved circulation from the lower extremities when they exercise in water. Since hydrotherapy involves
heated water at temperatures generally running from 94 to 96 degrees, it's particularly good at helping muscles relax, increasing the range of motion in joints, reducing fatigue, and controlling spasms.
Top 10 Health Benefits of Aquatic Exercise:
Reduces pain and stiffness
Increased capability of performing exercises
Increased range of motion
Low impact
Promotes greater flexibility and balance
High level of natural resistance
Strengthen muscles
Improves cardiovascular health and reduce blood pressure
Reduction of stress
Improves weight management
The AquaGaiter Treadmill System comes with a 40' hose assembly at no additional cost. This hose runs from the AquaGaiter in the pool, to the Power Pack unit that runs the treadmill. Other varying hose sizes, from 30' - 100', are also available for purchase separately, allowing you to perfectly customize this system to your unique space.
Installation How-To Video for the AquaGaiter Underwater Treadmill
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