This article on Water Fitness certainly offers information that can be very illuminating for anyone not aware of the benefits of exercise in water:   

http://www.ocregister.com/ocregister/healthscience/homepage/article_1252942.php

What is not shared, however, is the potential for safe rehabilitation, whether for those freshly injured or those with chronic pain (fibromyalgia, arthritis, etc.).  Always consultation with health professionals for appropriate guideliness would be in order. 

The fact is that when first attempting pool therapy exercises at the Easter Seal Society's Pool Therapy Program, it was possible to do about 1/3 of the exercises with pain.
http://ca-tr.easterseals.com/site/PageServer?pagename=CATC_medical_rehabilitation

Continued participation led to the ability to perform an hour of exercises in the water without pain!

For persons suffering from injury or chronic pain, the water offers a mode of exercise that may not be possible on dry land.  Clearly "Aquatic Physical Therapy" offers a dimension for rehabilitation and repair that may otherwise not be possible.  Accelerated healing can be the result.

Finally this about "Watsu:" 

"In addition to the physical benefits derived from the movements and stretches warm water facilitates, Watsu's power to reduce stress underlies both its effectiveness with those conditions in which stress is implicated and its growing popularity among the general public."

http://www.watsu.com/

Respectfully,
Burton Danet, Ph.D., Clinical Psychologist (Retired)
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