LiquidGym — The Hub | Advancing Aquatic Therapy Worldwide

Transformational Voices

What Ten Thousand Patients Sound Like.

Preparing for a Knee Replacement

“It's not aquafit. Not at all. It's exactly the therapy I need to get me ready for my knee replacement. The videos are professionally made and easy to follow. Such a godsend.”

— Angela S., WEI Member

Recovering from a Brain Injury

“His physiotherapist gave him an exercise. He said, 'I can't do that.' She said, 'Let's try it, as opposed to talking about it.' That's how he learned the difference between 'I can't' and 'I won't.' Now he has taken on the mantra: 'I CAN.'”

— Robert W., Physiotherapy Patient

Living with Multiple Sclerosis

“There are things you can do in the water that you would never attempt on land. It is not your typical rehab. Despite my disability, I keep coming back because they are my friends and help with my desire to keep moving the best I can.”

— Andrew, Patient Since 2013

Back on Skis, Fifteen Months Later

“I want to thank LiquidGym for being paramount in helping me to reach my very high goal. Having been an avid skier all my life, skiing is not only what I do in the winter, it's who I am.”

— Audrey, Physiotherapy Patient

Preparing for a Knee Replacement

“It's not aquafit. Not at all. It's exactly the therapy I need to get me ready for my knee replacement. The videos are professionally made and easy to follow. Such a godsend.”

— Angela S., WEI Member

Recovering from a Brain Injury

“His physiotherapist gave him an exercise. He said, 'I can't do that.' She said, 'Let's try it, as opposed to talking about it.' That's how he learned the difference between 'I can't' and 'I won't.' Now he has taken on the mantra: 'I CAN.'”

— Robert W., Physiotherapy Patient

Living with Multiple Sclerosis

“There are things you can do in the water that you would never attempt on land. It is not your typical rehab. Despite my disability, I keep coming back because they are my friends and help with my desire to keep moving the best I can.”

— Andrew, Patient Since 2013

Back on Skis, Fifteen Months Later

“I want to thank LiquidGym for being paramount in helping me to reach my very high goal. Having been an avid skier all my life, skiing is not only what I do in the winter, it's who I am.”

— Audrey, Physiotherapy Patient

Karen Snyder and Irene Hammerich, LiquidGym co-founders

The Defining Catalyst

She Was the Patient Before She Was the Founder.

In 2008, Karen Snyder broke her leg playing hockey.

Months of land based therapy progressed slowly. Then everything changed.

She got in the water. Movement came back. Confidence came back.

What if water is not the backup plan, but the answer?

Karen was not only a patient. She was already a builder.

Years working as a builder of businesses and training programs, including the Canadian Red Cross's own Adapted Aquatics program in New Brunswick.

Karen was not alone in knowing water.

Irene Hammerich had already spent decades building her own aquatic programs.

At St. Francis Xavier University, then the North York YMCA.

Together, they brought more than forty years of combined aquatic experience to LiquidGym, which they co-founded in November 2013.

Twelve years and ten thousand patients later, that question became the method behind everything ATI does today.

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A community pool serving as a clinic's water

The Paradigm Shift

You Do Not Need to Build a Pool to Become a Destination Clinic.

The biggest barrier to aquatic therapy was never the water. It was the assumption that you needed to own it.

Community pools. Retirement residence pools. Backyard pools. Any of them can become your clinic's water, while your brand stays exactly yours.

Our first ATI 360™ partner is starting in a community pool and is building what is set to become one of the largest rehabilitation clinics in Canada, in Toronto, Ontario, with his own facility planned within the next three years.

This is the model we built to remove the one objection that stopped every clinic before it started.

The framework

Three pillars, one system.

Train the clinicians. Carry the patient past discharge. Then run the whole thing as a service line.

The method underneath

FMAT™ — Functional Movement Aquatic Therapy Method™

A structured clinical system for how aquatic therapy is evaluated, progressed, and transitioned back to land-based function. Rather than exercises that happen to take place in water, FMAT uses buoyancy, resistance and depth intentionally — to restore movement, reduce stress on the body, and improve functional performance. Sessions progress through clearly defined stages of movement and loading, built around functional goals and measurable progression.

Covered in both Level 1 and Level 2 certification.

Pillar 01

Education & Certification

Level 1 builds the foundation: the therapeutic role and properties of water, safety, patient screening and suitability, and clinical application.

Level 2 advances aquatic assessment, clinical reasoning, treatment progression and skilled application in more complex rehabilitation presentations.

Module-based coursesPediatric — Fall 2026

Pillar 02

Water Exercise Institute (WEI)

The continuation layer of the ATI ecosystem: guided, video-based programs and an exercise library that support movement, confidence and independence beyond clinical supervision.

Why it mattersA complete patient journey needs a clear next step after the formal episode of care. WEI carries patients past discharge.

Pillar 03 — includes all three

The ATI 360 Model

A structured aquatic therapy implementation system that moves a clinic from vision to execution — stronger clinical consistency, clearer infrastructure, and a confident path to launch and growth.

Clinician Training & Certification Patient Education & Engagement Water Exercise Institute (WEI) Business Tools AI Readiness Tools ATI Launch Roadmap Clinic Ecosystems Turnkey Marketing Support

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The Global Innovation Ecosystem

Three Paths. One Global Innovation Ecosystem.

No matter what brought you here, the next step is already mapped out.

For Clinic Owners & Healthcare Providers

ATI 360™

Add a new revenue line without building a pool.

Aquatic Therapy Innovations (ATI 360™) gives you the training, the systems, and the launch roadmap to become a destination clinic, not just another clinic that offers aquatic therapy.

An aquatic therapy session in a clinical setting

ATI 360™Build Your Program

For Clinicians & Physiotherapists

ATI Education & Certification

Move from unsure to certified, one clearly defined stage at a time.

Uncertain in the water is a real feeling, and a completely fixable one. ATI Education and Certification gives you FMAT™, the named method that moves every clinician from unsure to confident.

A physiotherapist working with a patient in the water

ATI Education & CertificationGet Certified

For Patients & Individuals

Water Exercise Institute (WEI™)

Move better, feel stronger, recover with confidence.

Water Exercise Institute (WEI™) is a guided video library, organized by condition, on your phone or on your tablet, at any pool, on your own schedule.

A patient being guided through an aquatic exercise

Water Exercise Institute (WEI™)Start Moving

Irene Hammerich at the LiquidGym facility

The Clinical Foundation

Twelve Years, Pressure Tested in One Facility.

An eight thousand square foot facility became the laboratory.

Every stage of FMAT™, every certification, every clinical decision was pressure tested there first.

Innovation in the water was the core driver. Every protocol was built around what water could do that land never could.

A multidisciplinary team of physiotherapists, kinesiologists, and athletic therapists worked side by side.

Everything this facility proved now lives on in every clinic running the ATI™ program, every certified clinician, and every WEI™ member who uses it.

Clinical Leadership & The Future of Practice

A Single Standard Sits Behind Every Certification.

Clinical Leadership and Industry Validation

Every protocol and certification in the ATI™ ecosystem is clinically reviewed before it reaches a clinician or a patient, not just clinically inspired.

That standard carries through every recognition behind it, from a recognized presence at the 2026 ICEBAT Conference to patient outcomes featured on CBC and CTV News.

The Future of Practice — Built for What Comes Next.

Every clinic that launches with ATI™ is already prepared for the AI supported workflows shaping where rehabilitation is headed.

That is not an accident. Irene Hammerich speaks internationally on artificial intelligence in clinical practice, and that thinking is built into the ecosystem itself.

Aquatic therapy does not stand still. Neither does ATI™.

Physical Therapy in Water.Recovery Where Land Cannot Take You.

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