IATF, IHTN, IHF, Members and Lecturers

Highlights

Aquatic Course Package Valens, Switzerland, 2011 (PDF)

Master Class Halliwick Mallorca, 23+24 October 2010

IATF en Clinical Ai Chi

Ai Chi has been registered as a trademark per March 15th, 2010

New member of IATF per July 2010

Marco Barile has joined as a Halliwick member. He is physical therapist from Ischia (Napels), Italy.

IATF, IHTN, IHF, Members and Lecturers

International Halliwick Therapy Network (IHTN)

The IHTN is a body that manages the quality of the Halliwick Concept as a (physio)therapeutic approach. IHTN uses both the Ten-Point-Programme and Water Specific Therapy as an integrated system, and relates this system to health problems as formulated in the International Classification of Functioning, Disability and Health (ICF, World Health Organisation 2001).

Halliwick is regarded as the implementation of an evidence based clinical decision making process. External evidence (like randomized clinical trials in aquatic therapy), guidelines, expert opinion and patient values are combined in the goals to be reached. SMART goal setting is done by using the goal attainment scaling or Mymops systems, goals are assessed by water specific tests and regular "dry" tests or questionnaires.

Halliwick is a motor (re)learning approach - specific to water - and therefore can be related to land based approaches like neurorehabilitation, Bobath/NDT or MRP.
Halliwick techniques enable therapists also to work water-specifically:

in core stabilization (like Pilates)
as a reactive therapy
with constraint induced movement principles
with a fall prevention approach
in a motivational, problem solving way
in chronic pain behaviour modification

Halliwick can be integrated with and extended to concepts like the Bad Ragaz Ring Method, Ai Chi, Obstacle Course and AquaTrelax

A group of physiotherapists, of whom some were previously trained as Halliwick lecturer in the Rhine system of the International Halliwick Association, have been selected to participate in the IATF. These physiotherapists cooperate to develop Halliwick (and other concepts) according to the ideas that have been described above.

Members and (Senior) Lecturers

Johan Lambeck, Senior Lecturer Halliwick / Bad Ragaz Ring Method, Malden, Netherlands

Urs Gamper, Senior Lecturer Halliwick / Bad Ragaz Ring Method, Valens, Switzerland

Marcel Hulselmans, Senior Lecturer Halliwick, Bad Wildungen, Germany

Anne Bommer, Senior Lecturer Clinical Ai Chi / ATrelax, Geneva, Switzerland

Malú O.V. Garcia, Lecturer Halliwick, Goiania, Brasil

Rosane Barroso. Lecturer Halliwick,São Paulo, Brasil

Javier Gueita, Member Halliwick, Madrid, Spain

Conceição Graça, Member Halliwick, Ovar, Portugal

Marco Barile, Member Halliwick, Ischia, Italy

International Halliwick Foundation (IHF)

International Halliwick Foundation (PDF)