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Our clinic at The Royal Hospital Chelsea has one of the largest hydrotherapy pools in Central London. We offer self-pay and insurance funded rehabilitation packages, individual hydrotherapy sessions and a variety of plans to promote and deliver the best outcomes for patients using water and land-based physiotherapy interventions.
Hydrotherapy, also known as aquatic physiotherapy or aquatic therapy, is proven to be a safe and effective treatment in accelerating the rate of recovery for wide ranging conditions:
Gravity is reduced by one seventh when a patient is immersed into the water, and it can facilitate exercise techniques that offer both resistance and support. The warm temperature also prompts muscle relaxation, facilitates stretching and generally helps to reduce pain.
Watch the video of us featured on ITV Tonight treating a patient at our Chelsea Clinic, who reports the huge benefits hydrotherapy has made to his recovery.
Conditions that benefit from hydrotherapy include:
Here is an example of some higher intensity pool-based running and jumping drills, that can be used prior to attempting on land. These drills prepare the lower body for impact running, jumping and hopping, with joint sparing reduced loads in the aquatic environment.
It provides a safer environment to help develop speed and power, with increased horizontal resistance provided by the water, but less vertical ground impact forces. Good trunk and pelvic form can be maintained with the overhead drills, that improve activation of trunk and pelvic musculature.
Our hydrotherapists have at least five years experience in hydrotherapy. They are also physiotherapists and so during your thorough initial assessment are able to advise which form of treatment would be best for you.
We are one of the leading London providers of a combined land and pool-based programme for both non-operatively managed and pre/post joint replacement patients.
We have excellent relationships with orthopaedic surgeons, sports medicine specialists and other leading medics, to whom we can refer you should the need arise.
Our hydrotherapy services start from as little as £30 per session. Following a course of hydrotherapy, you can also return for self-hydro, if necessary, to further aid rehab in a more cost-effective way.
Do not worry if you cannot swim. A physiotherapist will be with you in the water at all times. The pool is not deep and you can hold onto the hand rails which surround the pool. You will not need to put your head under water.
A swimming costume and any acute medications. We provide towels and dressing gowns.
Access to the pool is via steps with hand-rails if you are able. Electronic hoist access is available to those patients who are less mobile.
The warmth of the water and the exercise may make you feel tired afterwards.
Waterproof dressings will be applied to prevent contact with recent surgery sites. We have stringent disinfectant measures which ensure clean water. The pool water is tested weekly for micro-organisms by the Health Protection Agency in accordance with their guidelines.
You will be assessed by a physiotherapist before your first hydrotherapy appointment. Certain conditions may prohibit you from hydrotherapy.
We usually call you back within the hour during normal working hours
We usually respond within the hour during normal working hours
