The Joy of Aquatic Exercise
THE JOY OF AQUATIC EXERCISE I just received my April 2022 online Harvard Medical School newsletter. In it is an interesting post titled Pool therapy beats physical therapy for chronic low back pain. The article describes a small randomized trial where researchers found that pool therapy—consisting of aquatic exercise—appears to have a greater benefit than physical therapy on pain, function, quality of life, sleep quality, and mental state for people suffering chronic low back pain. Reading this reminded me of my August 4, 2018 post Make a Splash—Water Workouts Are for Nearly Everyone. In this week’s post, I’d like to...