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What is Swimming?

Swimming is the movement through water, usually without artificial assistance. Swimming is an activity that can be both useful and recreational.

Reasons done & Efficacy

Reasons and Efficacy
Reasons done # of patients Major Moderate Slight None Can’t tell # of patients evaluated by
General health 7 3
Stress 5 3
Other 4 1
Mood 3 1
Anxiety 2 2
Muscle tension 2 0

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Side Effects

Side effects as an overall problem

Severe
1 17%
Moderate
0 0%
Mild
1 17%
None
4 67%

Most commonly reported side effects

dry skin/hair
1 17%
  • Mild
  • Moderate
  • Severe

Schedules

  30minutes as needed as needed daily weekly 2 hr weekly 45 min weekly 45 min daily
  1 Number of Patients: 1 3 Number of Patients: 3 4 Number of Patients: 4 4 Number of Patients: 4 2 Number of Patients: 2 1 Number of Patients: 1 1 Number of Patients: 1  

Stop Reasons

Why Patients Stopped Doing Swimming (multiple reasons could be selected)
Reason # Patients Percentage of patients
Expense
1 100% Expense: 100%

See all 1 patient who’ve stopped doing Swimming

Duration See details about how long patients take this treatment ▼

Currently Doing Swimming

0-1 month 1-3 months 3-6 months 6 months-1year 1-2 years 2 years or more
0
0
2
1
1
7

Stopped Doing Swimming

0-1 month 1-3 months 3-6 months 6 months-1year 1-2 years 2 years or more
0
0
1
0
0
0

Adherence, Burden & Cost See details from patient evaluations ▼

Adherence

Taking treatment as prescribed

Always
2 33%
Usually
0 0%
Sometimes
4 67%
Never
0 0%

Burden

Difficulty being on treatment

Very
0 0%
Somewhat
2 33%
A little
2 33%
Not at all
2 33%

Cost

Paid out of pocket

$200+
0 0%
$100-199
0 0%
$50-99
0 0%
$25-49
0 0%
< $25
5 83%

Report created on November 23, 2009.