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Pool Therapy at ProActive

Pool therapy is not just for summertime at ProActive. ProActive Physical Therapy and Sports Medicine’s Aquatic/Pool Therapy is performed at a beautiful indoor pool at the Noonan’s Swimming School located next door to our 4S Ranch facility. The pool is heated to a therapeutic 90 degrees and is 3½ to 4½ feet deep. The patients participate in an individual, injury specific, aquatic exercise program where the instructor can and will get in the water with the patients or may instruct from the deck. The friendly warm environment is shared with no more than 6 patients. The pool provides support, relaxation, and comfort.

Aquatic therapy benefits numerous patients and you don’t even have to know how to swim. Patients who will benefit range from total joint replacements to athletes that need to maintain limited weight bearing; patients with fibromyalgia; patients with gait difficulty; patients with multiple injuries and overweight patients. There are numerous benefits to aquatic therapy over land-based therapy, and they start with the benefit of the warm water. Warm water relaxes muscles and allows for improved joint range of motion. Noonan’s Swimming School keeps their pool in the perfect therapeutic water temperature range 88-96 degrees. Buoyancy is a huge factor that wins over land-based therapy because the deeper you immerse yourself in water the less you weigh and the less shock is transmitted through you bones and joints. Also, the resistance of the water improves balance and sensory awareness. With all these benefits, the pool allows us to help you return to your pre-injury self safely and comfortably.

About the Author - Laura

Laura was born and raised in Poway, CA, and is a southern California girl through and through. She went to college at Loyola Marymount University where she played basketball and rowed crew. She received her Physical Therapist Assistant degree from San Diego Mesa College, and she has been working as an outpatient, orthopedic PTA since 1996. She started her career in Los Angeles, CA, working for HealthSouth and Select Medical at the Kerlan Jobe Orthopaedic Clinic for 10 years. Laura came back home to San Diego in 2007, and has been working with ProActive Physical Therapy and Sports Medicine ever since. She works out of the Rancho Bernardo clinic as well as covering at all of the ProActive clinics. She ran the Aquatic Therapy Program at Kerlan Jobe for 9 years, and now has been in charge of the ProActive’s Aquatic Therapy in Rancho Bernardo. Her other career passion is working with Industrial Rehab and Worker Compensation patients. She has been performing Functional Capacity Evaluations (FCE) and POETS (Post Offer Employment Tests) for her entire career, and has worked with companies like Chevron, Union Pacific Railroad, American and Hawaiian Airlines, and Chrysler. She loves working with and helping people get back to what they want to do. . . walking their dog to playing pickle ball/tennis to going on a trip with their grandchildren. She enjoys walking/hiking with her dogs on her spare time.