Hydrotherapy Calgary
When you need a lower impact way to move, strengthen, and recover, hydrotherapy in Calgary can help you make progress with more confidence.
What Is Hydrotherapy?
Hydrotherapy is physiotherapy based rehabilitation performed in the pool. The water supports your body, reduces load through your joints, and creates a controlled environment where you can move with less pain and more freedom.
That makes it a strong option when land-based exercise feels too aggressive, too painful, or too limited in the early or mid stages of recovery after surgeries.
At Vital Performance Care, your pool rehabilitation is led by Rachel Solecki, MSc PT, BSc Kin, a physiotherapist who builds each session around your body, your goals, and your stage of recovery.
How Pool Physiotherapy in Calgary Can Help You
With aquatic rehabilitation, you can often start working on movement, strength, mobility, and confidence sooner and more comfortably than you could on land alone.
Hydrotherapy may help you:
Reduce joint stress while staying active
Restore movement after surgery or injury
Build strength in a more supported environment
Progress rehabilitation when land based exercise is limited
Improve walking, balance, and control
Who Hydrotherapy Is For
Hydrotherapy at Vital Performance Care may be a good fit if you are dealing with:
Post Surgical Knee Rehab
Pool rehab can be useful after procedures such as meniscal repair and ACL reconstruction, especially when you need to rebuild range of motion, strength, gait mechanics, and confidence without overloading healing tissues.
General Post Operative Rehabilitation
If you are recovering from surgery and need a thoughtful bridge back to normal activity, hydrotherapy may help you keep moving while respecting healing timelines and precautions.
Frozen Shoulder and Shoulder Rehabilitation
If your shoulder feels stiff, painful, or guarded after a period in a sling or after an injection, water based rehab can create a more comfortable environment to work on mobility and function.
ACL Rehabilitation
If you are working through ACL recovery, hydrotherapy can support different phases of rehab by helping you reintroduce movement and loading in a more controlled setting.
Aquatic Cross-Training Support
If you're specifically an injured runner, Rachel can design a more structured pool program for your cross-training so your workouts are more purposeful and aligned with your rehabilitation goals.
Meet Your Hydrotherapy Physiotherapist
Rachel Solecki, MSc PT, BSc Kin
Rachel provides one to one physiotherapist-led hydrotherapy in the pool at Vital Performance Care. Your sessions are guided by clinical assessment, personalized programming, and a clear focus on helping you move forward safely and effectively.
Where Hydrotherapy Takes Place
Your pool sessions take place at Vital Performance Care, inside the Eau Claire Athletic Club, at the club's pool, located at:
101 3 St SW, Calgary, AB T2P 4G6
With an elevator and accessible change rooms, your physiotherapist will help make your transition from assessment to pool rehab easy and convenient.
Book Your Hydrotherapy Assessment
If you are ready to explore hydrotherapy in Calgary, your first step is to book an Initial Assessment with Rachel Solecki.
After a full assessment from the physiotherapist, they will recommend either 45 or 60 minute follow up hydrotherapy sessions in the pool, to be booked with Rachel during your first assessment appointment.