Another addition to my journey into the World of Physiotherapy this year will be a Hydrotherapy class that I am taking twice a week. Yesterday was my first session with five willing participants, while one of them was so kind as to turn up but let me know she was not feeling well. I was thrilled to have anyone, let alone a small class of five, for my first day.
As part of my university placements, I attended a twice weekly hydrotherapy session for patients with mostly musculoskeletal problems. During this, I asked lots of questions, and by the end of the four weeks of it, I felt that I had a reasonable grasp of what to do in hydrotherapy.
I spent the night before writing out some simple exercises that I could run through. The content that I found was particularly underwhelming; but given that it was the day before, and I couldn’t put on my creative brain with something that I’d never really thought too much about, I settled with running through some basic exercises in the group part of the class.
After a busy morning, the moment came! It was my turn to lead a group of older Australians in their twice weekly session of water exercise!
I told them midway through the class that I had spent most of last year attending hardcore aerobics classes, and that I was planning on introducing some of the moves into the pool. And I was hoping that by the end of the year, we’d have a water aerobics class for the oldies!
It’s so much fun!
