At the end of last year, a NEJM study found that the risk of stroke in China was the world’s leading, as high as 39.3%. Among them, the risk of men is the highest in the world, 41.1%, and that of women is 36.7%, which is also the top three in the world.

Brain nerve damage cannot be reversed. The main purpose of “rehabilitation” is to help patients learn to live safely and integrate into society. Minimize the burden of stroke sequelae on yourself. This is why rehabilitation is very valuable for stroke patients. In fact, water rehabilitation treatment is one of the most common and beneficial rehabilitation methods for post-stroke patients. It is guided by professional water therapists and treated in the treatment pool.

Advantages of water rehabilitation therapy

1. Improve the balance of stroke patients – prevent falls

Many stroke patients will encounter balance problems, and it is difficult to sit, stand and even walk. Exercise in water can use the buoyancy of water to reduce the load, reduce the difficulty of knee bending and assist in maintaining balance. The therapist needs to arrange different forms of rehabilitation training for the patient.

2. Improve cardiovascular status – prevent recurrence

Stroke is terrible because it has a high recurrence rate. Generally speaking, most stroke patients will have two or even three strokes, and the mortality and disability rate will rise rapidly. Therefore, the prevention of stroke is as important as the treatment of stroke. Water rehabilitation treatment is conducive to cardiopulmonary function exercise and reduce blood glucose and blood lipid. Therefore, for patients who have not or have had stroke but have acceptable cardiovascular and cerebrovascular status, water rehabilitation training can help improve cardiovascular status and prevent stroke recurrence.

Generally speaking, the water environment is a very safe rehabilitation environment. Exercise training can be carried out in the water to regain the transfer function and strengthen the cardiovascular state. “Independence” and “functionality” are the main purposes of water rehabilitation in the recovery period of stroke. For patients, training in a safe and rich water environment, they can feel all kinds of information brought by water characteristics, so as to mobilize patients’ more functional activities, promote balance, proprioception and coordination function, more and more enhance patients’ self-confidence, challenge more and create more possibilities for them.