The Specialists

by  Majid Saedifar,DPT For more than two years, Diane Schneier and her mother Joyce have been doing aquatic therapy three times a week, trying to alleviate the pain of fibromyalgia syndrome. Fibromyalgia is not fatal, disfiguring or crippling, and it doesn’t get progressively worse. But it is often frustrating, because a person’s pain, symptoms and energy …

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by  Majid Saedifar,DPT Aquatic therapy programs around the country are inconsistent at best. Few schools teach in-depth programs in aquatic therapy, so physical therapists are left to create their own programs based on information gathered from whatever sources they can find. Since we’ve been doing this longer than most (since 1983) and have taught aquatic therapy …

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by  Majid Saedifar,DPT In 1983, as elite athletes gathered in Los Angeles for pre-Olympic competitions, Kenyan distance runners, French pole vaulters, Greek javelin throwers, Cuban sprinters, hurdlers, and discus throwers, and a phalanx of American athletes came to the International Sportsmedicine Institute (ISI) for treatment of their injuries. There, in our pool, they found a new …

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