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Thanks for your contribution to discussing innovation in aquatic exercise.
Find out more on the details in some of the research studies connected to the Hydro Functional team here:
The Hydro Functional Knee Pain and Aquatic Exercise Insights Report analysed the input of over 500 people to determine the top 10 trends in aquatic exercise for people with knee pain - find our more here
Interested in finding out more about the Exercise is Medicine movement - check out some of the reasons why it started including a call to merge the healthcare and fitness industries and the resources connected to the current movement.
Thanks to everyone at the Aqua Alliance Industry Forum for their participation in the brainstorming the enablers for innovation, at individual, team, organisational and systems levels, in the aquatic industry.
Here are the top 10 enablers:
In planning the next 10 years of innovation and change in aquatic exercise, participants in the Aqua Alliance Industry Forum also reviewed the challenges ahead. The top barriers to innovation included
Thanks again for your contribution to the innovation session and please get in touch if there's any way we can support you.
For a full list of references, please scroll to the end.
Let us know how we can help you innovate, with the forum notes, with other ideas or with one of our programs
We brainstormed some ideas combining technology and aquatic exercise using OpenAI: check out the results here
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