For more than 50 years, Dr. Jane Katz has been teaching swimming and the positive impact that aquatic exercise can have on body and mind. This is not a “theoretical” subject for her.  She has been through various physical and emotional traumas in her life and swimming has always helped pull her through.
It began back in 1961. when she was training for the Maccabiah Games and while riding as a passenger on a motorcycle one day in New York City when she was struck by a car that ran a red light. She suffered fractured ribs and was told that she was very lucky to have avoided a spine injury. One doctor advised her to never swim again! But she knew that she had to get back in the water to be truly healed. Â In fact, she made it to the Maccabiah’s and swam the 100 meter butterfly in 1:15.8, which was a personal triumph in so many ways. But, most of all, it was just great for her to be back in the water doing what she loved.
In the late 1970’s she had an accident that made the 1961 incident seem like a scratch. She was riding in a car in upstate New York, near Albany, when they were rammed by a drunk driver. She suffered a Colles fracture of her left wrist and a broken leg. In those days, there really weren’t any waterproof casts and so, initially, she was going crazy not being able to swim. Finally, it just got to be too much so she carefully wrapped her casts with plastic shopping bags and taped them as securely as she could and off to the pool she went.
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