{"id":2634,"date":"2013-03-18T00:44:09","date_gmt":"2013-03-17T13:44:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/inthenews\/?p=2634"},"modified":"2015-04-29T13:42:39","modified_gmt":"2015-04-29T03:42:39","slug":"lauchie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/lauchie\/","title":{"rendered":"Lauchie tries out the RCH hydrotherapy pool"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/2013\/03\/20\/lauchie\/untitled-12\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-2636\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-thumbnail wp-image-2636\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/files\/2013\/03\/untitled3-210x160.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"210\" height=\"160\" \/><\/a>This week patient Lauchie Dalton tried out the new hydrotherapy pool at The Royal Children&#8217;s Hospital (RCH).<\/p>\n<p>Lauchie was born with brittle bone disease and has broken bones\u00a0hundreds\u00a0of times\u00a0throughout his life. He has never been able to walk unaided but the recent therapy sessions in the RCH have meant that he is now closer to that milestone than ever before.<\/p>\n<p>After just a few sessions in the pool Lauchie&#8217;s mum, Donna, and physiotherapy team say his progress is remarkable.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;He can move around and do things in water in a way that he can&#8217;t on land because the buoyancy\u00a0helps in terms of his balance and coordination,&#8221; said RCH head of physiotherapy Bev Eldridge.<\/p>\n<p>The pool also helps patients like Lauchie improve muscle definition and circulation and can offer pain relief.<\/p>\n<p>Donate to The Royal Children\u2019s Hospital Good Friday Appeal at <a title=\"Good Friday Appeal\" href=\"http:\/\/www.goodfridayappeal.com.au\/\" target=\"_blank\">goodfridayappeal.com.au<\/a>\u00a0or phone 9292 1166.<\/p>\n<p>Click below to watch the 7 News story with Lauchie.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/62136184\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" frameborder=\"0\" webkitAllowFullScreen mozallowfullscreen allowFullScreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This week patient Lauchie Dalton tested the water at the new hydrotherapy pool at The Royal Children&#8217;s Hospital.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":41,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7198,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2634","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-good-friday-appeal","category-in-the-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2634","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/41"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2634"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2634\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2649,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2634\/revisions\/2649"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2634"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2634"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2634"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}