Overcoming Chronic Back Pain with an Endless Pool
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Vanetta Hunter’s original objective
in purchasing and installing her Endless Pool, in the winter of 1999, was the relief of chronic back
pain. But the synergistic effects of her hydro-therapy
regimen have proven as gratifying as the improvement
in her back condition is predictable.
Vanetta, a 67-year-old resident of Massachusetts,
strives for a minimum of five workouts a week, each
consisting of 20-30 minutes of swimming, mostly the
crawl, augmented by underwater aerobics when a recent
shoulder injury curtails swim time. As recommended
by her chiropractor, she typically concludes her exercise
routine with a few minutes of relaxed backstroke.
As is true of many dedicated users of the Endless
Pool, it is the most-helpful in a long series of remedies
she has tried in addressing a vexing, ongoing physical
impairment – her "reward,” as it
were, for being persistent. And as a bonus, Vanetta
has come to think the value of her new found exercise
regimen as exceeding the sum of its parts: In the
course of treating her back through aquatic therapy,
she has been surprised by the improvement in two other
persistent health concerns, hypertension and recurring
sinus infection.
“Though I’ve used medication to control
blood pressure, the results have been erratic,”
she says. “Exercising in the Endless
Pool seems to level out the spikes that accompany
pharmaceutical treatment. Another surprise
– though, again, it probably shouldn’t
be – is that the exercise clears my sinuses,
and swimming each day has reduced to almost none the
incidence of sinus infection. Thank goodness.”
One other apparent consequence of Vanetta’s
use of her Endless Pool: She has ceased to be surprised
of its benefit to her overall well being.
“Thanks to the specialists I’ve consulted
for my back pain in the past, I can give you a very
exacting diagnosis of the specific alignment problems
in my spinal column,” she says. “The trouble
is, none of this analysis led to a substantial improvement
in the condition. The variable that changed the whole
equation is the Endless Pool.”
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