Halliwick

Halliwick is a form of swimming therapy that can improve balance, coordination and relaxation, convey a sense of security or even lead to learning to swim.

The Halliwick concept

The Halliwick concept goes back to the British James McMillan . He gave swimming lessons to physically challenged girls at London's Halliwick School for Girls in the late 1940s and 1950s, particularly training their body stability in water.

According to the Halliwick concept, the physical properties of water form the basis for therapeutic interventions: These are turbulence, flow and resistance as well as the buoyancy, gravity and rotational torques.

Halliwick Ten Point Program

The “Halliwick Ten-Point Program” (Halliwick's 10-point program) is suitable for children and adults, for the disabled and non-disabled. B. used in neurological and orthopedic diseases, fractures or in cervicobrachialgia (shoulder-arm syndrome).

Halliwick Aquatic Therapy

The second part of the Halliwick concept, known as "Halliwick Aquatic Therapy" (also called Water Specific Therapy, WST), is an aquatherapy approach developed by Urs Gamper since 1974 in Bad Ragaz , Switzerland .

Web links

• Halliwick AST - Association of Swimming Therapy (English)
• WST - Water Specific Therapy Network
• Swiss Halliwick Association (SHV)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Halliwick therapy (on the website of the German Multiple Sclerosis Society, Bundesverband eV )
2. ↑ The Halliwick Concept - An Approach to Teaching Swimming (PDF, English, 6 pages, 2015)
3. ↑ The Halliwick Therapy Concept
4. ^ Bad Ragaz Ring Method Network

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