Aquatic Therapy for Arthritis Neck Pain Treatment

Series Summary

Aquatic arthritis exercises are an excellent means of treating rheumatoid arthritis pain. By reducing the effects of gravity on your body, aquatic exercises allow you to workout your joints and muscles without as great a stress on your joints. There are many aquatic exercises for each area of your body that can be used to treat arthritis pain. Many people suffer from arthritis neck pain and arthritis shoulder pain. If you would like to learn aquatic exercises for free in your own home, you can learn from one of our experts online.

In this free how to video series, learn how to do aquatic arthritis exercises from exercise physiologist and aquatic therapist Rotem Agame. Rotem will demonstrate how to do aquatic exercises to treat arthritis neck pain, arthritis shoulder pain, and how to exercise core muscles. She will teach you how to do aquatic arthritis exercises such as shoulder shrugs, shoulder hugs, arm circles, side bends, and the breast stroke arthritis exercise. All of these aquatic exercises will help you decrease arthritis pain and decrease the chance that you will injure yourself.

Video Transcript

"Hi! My name is Rotem. I'm an Exercise Physiologist and an Aquatic Therapist, and I'm here on behalf of Expert Village. The next few exercises are the neck exercises. The first one will be the neck turtle exercise. In this exercise, we will take our necks backwards and forward. When you're taking your neck backwards, you have to think about doing a double chin like movement like this. When you're taking it forward, you always have to think about taking your lower jaw forward with it like this. So it's going like this. Backwards, forward. It really looks funny and makes you look like a turtlehead, but it's really good for your joints and for the flexibility in your neck."