Let her body rise and fall in the water with her breath. In the pool's three-dimensional environment, the water itself becomes the plinth. The therapist does not have to work as hard to position the patient. The warmth of the water establishes an environment of relaxation and peacefulness. The patient is touched and touch by itself is often healing.
Fluid movements are easier to perform than their counterparts on land.
Joint mobilization, soft tissue elongation, and massage become less like therapy and more like dance. However, water exercise is more complicated than isokinetic exercise. Thus, the therapist has near infinite permutations and combinations to offer the patient. After this initial period, known as the Water Breath Dance, a series of movements follow which incorporate majestic swoops and body tucks and waves. In the midst of spinal flexion, the practitioner may pause and perform effleurage massage to the erector spinae muscles.