Get Moving With Therapeutic Exercise!
Have you been looking for a way to boost your physical activity while still reducing your pain symptoms? Therapeutic exercise is an excellent way to regain function and live pain-free!
Often people presume that someone who is doing physiotherapy is recovering from surgery. However, that is not always the case. Anyone who wants to regain their strength, endurance, flexibility or stability can benefit from physiotherapy.
Therapeutic exercise is a safe and easy way for patients of all ages to achieve pain relief, and the physiotherapists at Newcastle Physiotherapy and Sports Rehab are proud to provide it in our Newcastle, ON clinic.
Discover The Benefits of therapeutic exercise
Exercise programs are aimed at improving health, so you can feel better than you did beforehand.
Therapeutic exercise is similar in this way; however, it also implements targeted activities that are aimed at relieving pain and restoring you to your optimum level of physical function.
Therapeutic exercise can also be used as a way to prevent additional impairment or disability when facing certain physical risks.
There is a wide variety of therapeutic exercises and each one has a unique purpose. These include:
Coordination and Balance Exercises
You put the muscle and skeletal structures in your body to the test any time you rise, walk, rest, brush your teeth, prepare a meal, or go about your everyday activities.
You lose your ability to look out for yourself and keep yourself safe if you can’t maintain your balance! If you don’t have control over your body, you put yourself at risk for falls and injuries.
Your ability to care for yourself or your loved ones depends on your ability to balance and coordinate your arms, legs, hands, and feet. That is why balance and coordination exercises are so important, especially after an injury or illness.
Relaxation Exercises
Although it’s vital to exercise the body’s muscles, joints, and soft tissues, it’s also crucial to help them relax and release.
Even if sleeping when you’re in pain isn’t necessarily the ideal way to deal with it, relaxing will help your body to begin the recovery process.
Heat, ice, electrical stimulation, massage, or trigger point therapy are all pain-relieving therapies that can help the body recover, boost sleep, reduce blood pressure, and keep you coming back for more exercise!
Area-Specific Exercises
It’s easy to think of exercise as something we do with our muscles, but exercise can also help our body’s other systems. Area-specific exercises target breathing and circulation to help speed healing, improve blood flow, or lower stress on the body.
Range of Motion Exercises
These kinds of exercises are aimed at increasing the range of motion in your joints and soft tissues.
This may be done through active, passive, or assisted stretching activities designed to help your joints move better, without pain.
Posture Exercises
You may not know it, but posture has a direct effect on muscle strength, balance, and injury risk.
Hours spent at desks, leaning over keyboards, poor muscle tone, and poor posture patterns may all result in discomfort or disability.
Posture exercises are aimed at correcting poor posture, not just when you exercise, but also in your daily life activities to alleviate aches and pains.
Muscle Performance Exercises
Increasing power, endurance, and muscle strength are vital to good balance and stability, as well as bone and joint health.
Resistance and endurance exercises are designed to increase muscle strength without injury.
How can therapeutic exercise help relieve my pain?
It is a common belief that when one is in pain, one should only rest and relax. When you’ve sustained an injury, it’s normal to want to lay down or go to bed, but this will cause the muscles to weaken or atrophy during the recovery process. In the long term, this will lead to reduced functionality and increased discomfort.
The good news is that physiotherapy in our Newcastle, ON clinic can help you. Our physiotherapists are movement experts, trained in improving strength, range of motion, and overall function of the body.
At Newcastle Physiotherapy and Sports Rehab, our goal is to help you live a pain-free life with even greater strength and endurance than you had before.
Our physiotherapists will create an individualized treatment plan for you that includes therapeutic exercises to relieve pain, strengthen the weak areas of the body, promote the healing process, and achieve optimal levels of function.