{"id":4097,"date":"2016-03-21T07:55:54","date_gmt":"2016-03-21T13:55:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/forum.belmont.edu\/health\/?p=4097"},"modified":"2019-01-31T09:41:11","modified_gmt":"2019-01-31T15:41:11","slug":"occupational-and-physical-therapy-students-particpate-in-aquifit-program","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forum.belmont.edu\/health\/2016\/03\/21\/occupational-and-physical-therapy-students-particpate-in-aquifit-program\/","title":{"rendered":"Occupational and Physical Therapy Students Participate in Aquifit Program"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Associate Professor in the School of Occupational Therapy Natalie Michaels started the Aquifit program\u00a0seven\u00a0years ago with students from Tennessee State University.\u00a0The program\u00a0provides aquatic exercise for older adults and promotes wellness, socialization and enjoyment. The program has demonstrated\u00a0improved balance, weight loss\u00a0and\u00a0decreased pain in individuals with arthritis as the buoyancy in chest deep water provides assistive movement to antigravity muscles, as well as resistance to muscles that are gravity assisted on land.<\/p>\n

\"Aquifit<\/a>Michaels\u00a0is\u00a0now including\u00a0Belmont\u2019s occupational and physical therapy students in the program. Students recently participated in the program at Del Webb Retirement Community and will do so again in April. The program is currently targeted to the older adult population, but\u00a0the group plans\u00a0to work with young adults with neuromuscular disabilities in the Metro Parks system next month and to eventually work with children with\u00a0Down Syndrome.<\/p>\n

Michaels said the community was impressed with the professionalism and intelligence of the Belmont students. \u201cIt\u2019s been wonderful including students from two different disciplines in the activity.\u00a0Having students from more than one perspective has made it a much more holistic experience both for the students and the participants,\u201d she said. \u201cThere have also been community therapists from multiple disciplines assisting and a few faculty from other universities. I am extremely proud to work on this service activity with the OT and PT students from Belmont.\u201d<\/p>\n

\"Aquifit<\/a>Students who participated included occupational therapy students Alyssa Burlage, Amanda LaBonte, Jordyn Perry, Joseph Straatman, Jenae Stevens and Nicole Kmieciek and physical therapy students Brittany Ryan, Emmy Rice, Kelsey Marie Otten, Lindsey Schiller, Megan Rolfe and Shelly Witt.<\/p>\n

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Associate Professor in the School of Occupational Therapy Natalie Michaels started the Aquifit program\u00a0seven\u00a0years ago with students from Tennessee State University.\u00a0The program\u00a0provides aquatic exercise for older adults and promotes wellness, socialization and enjoyment. The program has demonstrated\u00a0improved balance, weight loss\u00a0and\u00a0decreased … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,10,8,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4097","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-exercise-science","category-chs","category-occupational-therapy","category-physical-therapy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forum.belmont.edu\/health\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4097","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forum.belmont.edu\/health\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forum.belmont.edu\/health\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forum.belmont.edu\/health\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forum.belmont.edu\/health\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4097"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/forum.belmont.edu\/health\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4097\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4099,"href":"https:\/\/forum.belmont.edu\/health\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4097\/revisions\/4099"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forum.belmont.edu\/health\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4097"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forum.belmont.edu\/health\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4097"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forum.belmont.edu\/health\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4097"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}