August 2005
	New Product: $24.95 Thick & Long Sqoodle™ This is our thickest, longest, and most buoyant Sqoodle™ available. The oversized length will easily wrap around almost any individual and be able to float even the heaviest "sinkers". The Huey-Klapper Knee-Point Scale: Huey's book Heal Your Knees uses a knee-point scale to help you formulate an effective knee healing workout without risking further injury. EXAMPLE: Point Assessment Base points: 100 56 years old -20 20 lbs. overweight -10 Current knee problems -20 Weekly total: 50 pts. Point Expenditure 5 hrs. Water Exercise 0 2 hrs. aerobics class -18 2 hrs. golf-walking-12 1 hrs. volleyball -18 Weekly total: 48 pts. Contest Winner Congratulations to Angela S. for winning AquaJogger® gear in this Month's Drawing. Enter here for a chance to win future giveaways.			Heal your Knees with Lynda Huey    For many of us, knee pain is a reality that wakes us in the morning (if it hasn't kept us up all night), takes the spring out of our step, makes climbing up and down stairs a chore, or is a sharp reminder that we're getting older.    In the Innovative book, Heal Your Knees: How to Prevent Knee Surgery & What to Do If You Need It, orthopedic surgeon Robert Klapper, M.D., combines his expertise with Lynda Huey, a water therapy expert, to provide you with all the tools you need to Heal Your Knees.    Huey writes, "Exercising in the water is the best of all pain-reducing treatments. It naturally increases circulation, releases endorphins (the body's painkillers), and stimulates the body's healing mechanisms. Your primary treatment for preventing knee surgery, especially if you are overweight, in pain, or have weak muscles, is to begin here, with a pool program. The following exercises are some of the 34 movements which Huey has incorporated into her Heal Your Knees Water Exercise Program: Sit Kicks Assume a chair-sitting position as shown in the photo. Move your hands gently from side to side in front of you for balance. Gently kick your left foot forward and simultaneously pull the right heel towards your buttocks. Continue alternating one foot forward and the other foot backward. Each right-left kick is one repetition. Exercise demonstrated using a Sqoodle™. Abs Lean back to find a balanced position as shown in the photo. Keep your legs together as you pull them to your chest. Then push them back to the starting position. Focus on performing a powerful isometric contraction of the abdominals each time in order to gain mid-body strength. DeltaBells™ add stability and balance to this exercise. Water Walking Start in an upright position with no forward or backward lean. Hold your right arm and left leg forward at the same time to establish your "opposition" position. Then begin an exaggerated walking motion, one in which the knees never bend. Swing your arms and legs forward and backward--right arm with left leg and left arm with right leg--in a smooth, flowing motion. Water Running Run in an upright position using the exact motion of good running form on land. Lift each knee, then push each foot straight down behind you, following the path of the arrow in the photo. Start slowly with minimal bending of your knees at first. If your knee tolerates this, then you can try increasing your speed and lifting your knee up to 90 degrees. One final consideration before you begin your pool program: Keep in mind that you feel less pain in the water than on land, and because you may not feel the pain of a new movement until the next day, err on the side of caution as you begin your pool recovery. Lynda Huey, a former athlete and UCLA track coach, is the founder of CompletePT Pool & Land Physical Therapy in Los Angeles and the author of the Complete Water Power Workout Book. She lives in Santa Monica, California. Lynda can be emailed at LyndaHuey@CompletePT.com.
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