Category: Health
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Fan Uses U.S. Olympic Swim Trials as Therapy
Pool construction at the Centurylink Center is just more than half way complete as they gear up for Olympic Swim Trials next month.
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Stroke, Swim, Succeed – Making Strides With Aquatic Therapy
A stroke left David with little use of his arm and leg. Thanks to his aquatic therapy classes at Sharp Grossmont Hospital, David grows stronger each day and closer to his goal of getting back on skiis.
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81-year-old swimmer Bill Lauer beats UT students in race
Eighty-one-year-old swimmer Bill Lauer races against professor Dave Bassett’s kinesiology students at the UT student aquatic center Tuesday, May 10, 2016.
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Brain-eating amoeba kills woman after a swim in Colorado River
Water skiing wakeboarding and fishing were things Kelsey McClain lived for. “Pretty much anything to do with the outdoors, she loved,” said McClain’s mother, Jennifer McClain. But she also died by the outdoors. In August 2015, McClain celebrated her 24th birthday at Fisher’s Landing, a resort along the Colorado River. She felt fine when she…
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The Sunrise Swimmers
A short film documenting the daily ritual of the “Sunrise Swimmers”, a group of pensioners who, in a age-defying act, spend the first light of every morning in the ocean – come shark, rain or shine.
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Program teaches autistic children how to swim
April is Autism awareness month and according to the Center for Disease Control and Prevention, one out of every 68 children born and over 3.5 million Americans are affected by some form of the disorder. Studies have found that, believe or not, swimming can help autistic children with their speech, social skills and self-esteem. One…