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I provide specialist courses for therapy teams supporting individuals with profound and multiple learning disabilities (PMLD), physical disabilities and additional sensory needs.
"Lee taught at a great pace, was reassuring and he gave notes and feedback for improved skills. His teaching style is brilliant and so useful to me. Thanks, team for your expertise, patience, and encouragement. You do a cracking job and have installed a passion in me."
About LD Therapy Courses
Hi, I’m Lee Dart BSc, MCSP. founder of LD Therapy Courses. Like you, I care deeply about helping people reach their potential, especially those with profound and multiple learning disabilities. I’m a physiotherapist with over 15 years of experience supporting individuals with complex needs in specialist education settings. Through LD Therapy Courses, I share practical, evidence-based training in Hydrotherapy and Rebound Therapy designed specifically for staff working with people with PMLD. I help teams build the skills and confidence to deliver engaging and effective therapy sessions that enhance health and wellbeing.
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Hydrotherapy: Release, Rebuild, Refine: A Practical Guide to Exercise, Handling and Progression
in Aquatic Therapy.
Hydrotherapy offers far more than a familiar routine of pool exercises. Used thoughtfully, water can support movement, reduce load, create resistance and open possibilities that may be difficult to achieve on land. Hydrotherapy: Release, Rebuild, Refine is a visually led practical guide for appropriately trained individuals responsible for delivering aquatic therapy sessions. Written by physiotherapist, trainer and lecturer Lee A Dart, it brings together more than a decade of clinical practice, teaching and collaboration with therapy teams. The focus throughout is not simply what an activity looks like, but why it is being used, how it can be performed and how it can be adapted around the individual. At its centre are the 3 Therapeutic Rs: Release, Rebuild and Refine. This framework helps practitioners identify whether the main purpose of an activity is to improve range and relaxation, rebuild strength and endurance, or refine balance, coordination and control. Inside you will find: Clear explanations, informed by current research, of how warmth, buoyancy, hydrostatic pressure and resistance influence the body and movement Practical guidance on equipment, positioning, holds, handling and water massage techniques Features the LD Therapy Courses Hydrotherapy Progression Chart, connecting 35 activity groups and more than 60 individual exercises Variations, progressions and practical adaptations to help adjust position, support, equipment and movement Five Functional Mobility Levels and ten Challenge Levels to support exercise selection and progression 15 programme examples covering every combination of the five Functional Mobility Levels and three Therapeutic Rs Clear colour illustrations throughout, plus companion online animations demonstrating every exercise The book is designed to help practitioners move beyond repeating familiar routines and create purposeful, varied programmes around individual needs and abilities.