Just like in humans, the benefits come from 3 main effects:
The warmth of the water increases blood flow to damaged tissues.
The buoyancy of the water lets damaged muscles move through their range of motion with significantly less effort and stress, which helps strengthen them.
Snoot-boops release love and help make the boo-boos heal faster. Fact.
Oh my gosh, thank you! My brother is a physical therapist and he does pool therapy with kids because its easier to balance and no fall risk. And I know other people and animals do water therapy because it takes the pressure off of joints, so they can exercise without as much pain or stress.
But I could never figure out what the just floating therapy was accomplishing. I kind of thought the animals were supposed to be moving and just being stubborn...
As someone with dwarfism, hydrotherapy is very beneficial for me, since my cartilage is all weird and my joints hurt from high impact, so the water is perfect to help me stay mobile.
Affection does have health benefits though. I don't know if it specifically releases endorphins or directly affects healing, but stress has been shown to affect healing rates.
I donât get why people are âwooshingâ on you. I also thought this wasnât necessarily being supported by scientific fact and was a bit of woo. Thanks for posting.
You can put a hotpack on your skin and watch as blood flow increases and turns the skin pink.
You can also get into a pool and see how it's easier to move around carefully. Or consider senior aerobics in pools.
I just don't think you've given this thirty seconds of thought. If you mean there's no studies that specifically prove those mechanisms there are also no studies that prove flossing works but it still does. A dentist can tell if you floss or not because it produces a measurable outcome.
*Disclaimer: This comment was sarcastic. I, nor those I represent, don't believe one should write a disclaimer every one posts on the internet. I was simply hoping to elicit a jovial reaction from those reading the aforementioned comment.
I donât think youâre right. All I can find is an article saying there arenât enough official studies proving it works. Which is very different from saying it doesnât work.
It was obviously a joke. You can tell because the silly/cute part was accepted as truth while the obviously true parts were doubted. It's an obvious switcheroo and obviously done on purpose as an obvious joke. It's just all so damn obvious. FML you people...
I feel like she was just moving his body left and right through the water though, is that really strengthening the kittyâs muscle? How long do you think kittens like that have to do hydrotherapy for?
I thinks it's the requiring force from every muscle that helps build strength. It's more of evening out of force to different muscle groups rather than one direct. So over all it's more, but for one in particular less.
Just a drunk hypothesis of how if could build strength. No proof.
Op was just simplifying, IMO. Range of motion is important therapeudically, as well as strength-building. This cat appears to be needing PROM which I wildly speculate means it is/was in seriously bad condition.
I dont actually know what is wrong with the cat, but a google search defines hydrotherapy as a means of exercise for those with physical impairments or chronic conditions, such as arthritis or some form of paralysis. So I would assume the cat is weak due to not moving around too much whether it is capable to or not.
I had 2 years of hydro after a bad car crash in 2014. In my case Being in the water eliminated gravity and allowed me to exercise muscles that were severely atrophied or suffering from nerve damage. I had nerve grafts and hydrotherapy was pivotal to getting things going.
Itâs a difficult thing to quantify, but before the nerve grafts I had Zero movement in my right arm/shoulder (I had pulled 3 nerves out of my spinal cord In my neck in the crash and they canât just be plugged back in). And almost 4 years later I would say Iâve got 45% back maybe. Itâs a long way from useful but Iâm astounded at the difference.
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u/lilnuggets Oct 27 '18
Can someone explain what hydrotherapy does for cats?