How a Physical Therapist Can Help with Exercise
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You cant rest pain away
A couple of decades ago, patients with any forms of body pains or injuries such as back pains or knee sprains, patients would be told to rest in bed and immobilize “until better”. Today, research shows that prolonged bedrest would be bad for any types of injuries and sprains because that inactivity and rest will slowly weaken the required muscles that support the injured structures.
Note: you lose an average of 1% muscle mass and strength every day you total rest in bed
Right kind of exercise good
On the other hand, the right kind of exercises and at the right time, will help to build and maintain
- muscle strength
- joint flexibility
- more
so that you can do your everyday activities. Healthy muscles will help to protect your bones and joints too plus accelerate healing as it increases blood flow to injury sites etc.
As a matter of fact, many patients with pains and injuries (such as back pain) are referred to physiotherapists for treatment. Our roles are critical in providing proper guidance, education, and treatments that can help them recover successfully.
Top 3 reasons to see a physiotherapist for your pain
- Pain relief from injuries, conditions or post-surgery
- Indepth assessment and develop a customized physio exercise program for you
- To learn proper exercise technique and ways to give muscular protection to bone and joint structure
Physical therapy exercises for pain relief and healing
There are a number of therapeutic modalities that we can use to relieve pain, and some includes:
- hot or cold therapy
- ultrasound therapy
- manual therapy including massage, joint mobilizations, muscle management
- electrical muscle stimulation
Pain relief also can be activated with active exercises and exercise therapy such as exercises that can stretch tight or sore muscles. Examples of that method of pain relief includes:
- The McKenzie approach to back exercises is designed such to alleviate your pain symptoms
- Dynamic lumbar stabilization exercises reduce pain by reducing motion at the injury location. This technique involves training muscles to automatically provide protective support during activity.
Indepth assessment and customized exercise program
Physical therapy is a profession that specializes in the evaluation and treatment of disorders or injuries related to movement, physical capability, body type, and activity level. We’re trained to develop an exercise program based on clinical research for your painful condition or diagnosis.
Of course, the 2nd most important thing to do is doing a deep-dive assessment to find out for sure what’s the main cause that’s causing your pains and conditions, and treat the pain as well as the core problems – this way, we can resolve your pains for good (better than just short-term symptomatic relief)
Proper exercise technique
Sometimes its easier to think “just move” is exercise, and to a basic simple extent, that’s true…but that’s true only when there’s no pains or injuries.
It’s when there’s pains, injuries and conditions that can be aggravated with wrong moves, then it’s very important to get assessed and treated by experienced physiotherapists who knows how to treat your specific painful conditions.
The proper exercise technique allows the patient to isolate the desired muscle/muscle group that increases the effectiveness of an exercise. We will instruct a patient on how best to perform each individualized exercise in their program, and keep improving and fine tuning for continuous improvement as new exercises come out.
Where To Next?
- Go to Home / Start
- Learn and find out more about your pains (bones, muscles, joints, tendons, ligaments, nerves etc) at Pain Conditions & Injuries
- Visit our shop to see products we recommend for pain relief, heating, treatments and more
- Contact us
