Therapeutic Exercise Helps Alleviate Pain
People of all ages can discover safe and effective pain relief by practicing therapeutic exercise! Therapeutic exercise can help you get back to your normal daily activities and experience a pain-free life.
It is common to think that physical therapy treatments are only for patients recovering from recent surgery. However, this is not the case! Participating in physical therapy is for anyone who feels they are not giving the active life they are accustomed to. Physical therapy helps people improve or restore their strength, endurance, flexibility, or stability.
In fact, physical therapy can be an effective treatment option for any pain, injury, or ailment someone may be experiencing.
To learn the ways therapeutic exercise may benefit you, contact Progressive Medical Fitness today!
Benefits of therapeutic exercise
The goal of exercise programs is to improve overall health. The result is that you feel better than you did before beginning the exercise program.
In this, therapeutic exercise has similarities. However, therapeutic exercise aims to relieve your pain and restore your peak physical function through targeted activities. Additionally, therapeutic exercise has preventative benefits such as preventing further impairment or decline when you are at higher risk for certain conditions.
Each therapeutic exercises has a targeted benefit and there is a variety of therapeutic exercises that are specific to helping a certain condition. These include:
Area-Specific Exercises
Exercise need not only have to do with using our muscles, but exercise can also benefit many other body systems. Area-specific exercises target specific body systems such as the respiratory and circulatory systems. Area-specific exercises have many benefits such as increased blood flow, help quicken healing, or decrease stress on the body.
Balance & Coordination Exercises
Bones and muscles work together as a team to help you keep your balance each and every time you stand or sit. Any time you are mobile in your daily activities, such as standing, walking, sitting, cooking a meal, or simply brushing your teeth, you are engaging the coordination between the muscular and skeletal systems of your body. The ability to care for yourself and others is dependent upon your ability to coordinate your limbs and have proper balance. Balance and coordination exercises are vital to keeping your independent, especially after an injury or illness. If your balance or coordination decline significantly, your ability to care for yourself is greatly impacted.
Posture Exercises
Poor posture while sitting at your desk at work, or bending over your computer, poor muscle tone, can lead to chronic pain or injury. Your posture effects many body systems, ranging from the strength of your muscles to your balance. Poor posture increases your risk of injury. The goal of posture exercises is restore proper posture and natural spinal alignment, both while exercising, and as part of your daily life activities to alleviate nagging aches and pains.
Range of Motion Exercises
Range of motion exercises are targeted to increase the range of motion in your joints and soft tissues. Stretching activities may be active, passive, or assisted. Range of motion exercises are specifically developed to help improve your joint mobility, while alleviating pain.
Relaxation Exercises
Helping your muscles relax provides just as many vital benefits as actively exercising your muscles. Just as our bodies need rest while we sleep, muscles, joints and soft tissues need to relax after exercise as well. Pain relieving techniques help the body to relax which in turn improves sleep, lowers blood pressure, and ensures your body is ready for more exercise! Pain relieving techniques practiced by our highly trained physical therapy team include heat and cold therapies, massage, trigger point therapy, or electrical stimulation.
Muscle Performance Exercises
Increasing strength and endurance of muscles is vital to proper stability and balance, as well as keeping bones and joints healthy. Resistance and endurance exercises are developed to strengthen muscles without injury.
Therapeutic exercise relieves pain
When you are experiencing pain, rest is not always the cure.
When muscles are not exercised for a period of time during the healing process, they may weaken, which may decrease mobility and lead to more pain in the long term.
Our Progressive Medical Fitness physical therapy team is highly trained in all aspects of movement. Our licensed physical therapists have trained in various techniques to improve strength, range of motion, and overall function of the body.
Your physical therapist will develop a personalized treatment plan including the specific therapeutic exercises you need to alleviate pain, strengthen or regain function in any weak areas, and promote the natural healing process of your body.
At Progressive Medical Fitness in Northport, NY, our team’s goal is to help you live your best life: pain-free and with improved strength and endurance.
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If you are tired of living with nagging pain that limits your life, contact us at Progressive Medical Fitness in Northport, NY!
Discover how therapeutic exercise can help you achieve your physical goals and allow you to live your optimal life!