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Water is rejuvenating, therapeutic, and takes all mammals back to their safe prenatal existence. 

• Its buoyancy reduces weight bearing by over 75%; provides a safe environment for balance challenges and new movements; and allows for 360-degree, unrestricted active and passive range of motion
• Its viscosity provides a spectrum of strength training potential and sensory input, as well as the osteogenic benefits of resistance
• Its light refraction forces kinesthetic and proprioceptive awareness, as vision cannot be trusted due to distortion
• Its varying temperatures, in combination with its other physical properties, can warm the body's tissues; improve fluid, nutrient, waste, and blood flow; decrease muscle guarding; and alleviate pain

Other fascinating facts about water include:

• It's approximately 700 - 800 times denser than air
• It's approximately 55 times more viscous than air
• It's approximately 12 - 20 times the resistance of air
• A five-kilometer (three-mile) swim is equivalent to a 25-kilometer (15.5-mile) run

Recent evidence from medical literature even demonstrates the benefits of aquatic therapy for children with autism through significant improvements in social competence, quality of life, motor skills, and cognitive function.