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Paediatric Aquatic Therapy Course
Date: March 6-7, 2009
Host: Southlake Regional Health Centre
Location: Newmarket, Ontario (right outside Toronto)
Instructor: Jennifer Tvrdy, OTDR/L
Cost: $500.00
Contact Name: Carrie Anne McQuaid
To request brochure or register: (905) 895-4521 ext. 2389
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Cost of hosting a custom seminar versus traveling.
Money too tight to travel? Seminars never come close to your home town? Or maybe you've been burned by sloppy instructors or too crowded courses?
Read below about
one facility's decision to pass on travel for aquatic therapy training
in 2009.
INTERVIEW with Aili Pare, PT, Southlake Regional Health Centre, New Market, Ontario
ARN: Why did you first decide to bring continuing education to your facility instead of sending your people out for training?
PARE: It was a more practical option for us as there is little to no aquatic training offered for therapists in Ontario. It enabled us to train our staff and with outside registrants it helped to offset the cost.
ARN: With the economy problems looming, do you see custom seminars as an up-and-coming trend for 2009?
PARE: For our facility it makes sense. I think it would work well for facilities that don't have the funds to send all of their staff to a course or perhaps two or more facilities in the same area that don't have easy access to courses offered in major city centres.
ARN: Why did you pick ARN for training?
PARE: We were very impressed with the resources available online, Andrea Salzman (ARN Founder) seemed very knowledgeable and friendly and they offered a great hands-on course that could be tailored to fit our specific needs.
ARN: Did/will you open up the seminar to outsiders? Did this completely/partially cover your costs? Did you make a profit?
PARE: We did open the course to outsiders which offset the cost of the course for our staff and we did have a little money left over to purchase some pool equipment. We are holding a paediatric aquatic therapy course March 6-7, 2009 which will also be open to the public, so people can call Carrie Anne at (905) 895-4521 ext. 2389 for information.
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Institute of Health Science, Kyushu University, 6-1 Kasuga-koen, Kasuga, Fukuoka 816-8580, Japan. masumoto@ihs.kyushu-u.ac.jp
We compared physiological and perceptual responses, and stride characteristics while walking backward in water with those of walking forward in water.
Eight males walked on an underwater treadmill, immersed to their xiphoid process level. Oxygen uptake ((.)V(O2)), respiratory exchange ratio (R), heart rate (HR), minute ventilation ((.)V(E)), blood lactate concentration (BLa), ratings of perceived exertion (RPE: for breathing and legs, RPE-Br and RPE-Legs, respectively), blood pressure (for systolic and diastolic pressures, SBP and DBP, respectively), and step frequency (SF) were measured.
In addition, step length (SL) was calculated. (.)V(O2), R, HR, V (E), BLa, RPE-Br, RPE-Legs, and SBP were significantly higher while walking backward in water than when walking forward in water (P<0.05).
Furthermore, SF was significantly higher (P<0.001) and SL was significantly lower (P<0.001) while walking backward in water, compared to walking forward in water.
These results indicate that walking backward in water elicits higher physiological and perceptual responses than those produced when walking forward in water at the same speed.
School of Physical Education, University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand. vicky.phillips@otago.ac.nz
PURPOSE: To investigate the maximal physiological responses between aquatic and land-based graded exercise tests in overweight women.
METHODS: Twenty healthy, overweight (body mass index (BMI) > or = 25 kg.m(-2)), Caucasian women (mean +/- SD; age 48 +/- 7 yr, BMI 30 +/- 4 kg.m(-2)) completed a deep water running (DWR) and treadmill walking (TMW) graded exercise test.
Maximal responses during the DWR and TMW graded exercise tests were compared using paired t-tests.
Comparisons were made in the incidence of achievement of maximal oxygen consumption (VO2max) criteria between DWR and TMW protocols.
Criteria were a plateau in VO2 (change < 2.1 mL.kg.min(-1)), heart rate (HR) equal to or above the age-adjusted maximum, and respiratory exchange ratio (RER) > or = 1.15.
RESULTS: Maximal responses for VO2max (22.5 +/- 4.86 vs 27.7 +/- 4.73 mL.kg.min(-1)), HRmax (159 +/- 16 vs 170 +/- 12 bpm), and RER (1.03 +/- 0.06 vs 1.10 +/- 0.06) were significantly lower (P < 0.01) for the DWR test compared with the TMW test, respectively.
Achievement of various VO2max criteria was demonstrated more consistently during the TMW test than the DWR test.
CONCLUSION: Maximal physiological responses of overweight women to DWR and TMW are significantly different but are comparable with other populations. As the maximal responses for DWR compared with TMW differ, the use of land-based criteria for VO2max is not recommended for a graded DWR exercise test.
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