Whether you’re healing from an injury or aiming to boost your athletic performance, adding therapeutic exercise to your routine can make a big difference in your recovery and results. Your body is like a well-oiled machine, and while life can sometimes throw it off balance, you often have the power to get back to feeling your best. The goal of therapeutic exercise is to restore your body’s strength and musculoskeletal system’s function. If this is something that interests you, working with a physical therapist offers many benefits, including a personalized plan tailored to your specific needs and goals. See below for five benefits of therapeutic exercise:
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Reducing pain
Therapeutic exercise has a long history of treating pain. When pain originates from damaged, weak, stiff or even overused muscles, therapeutic exercises can address it by targeting the source. Oftentimes therapeutic exercise will be used in conjunction with other treatment methods as a part of your pain management regimen.
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Improving balance
There are specific exercises to help improve your balance and overall stability. When your body is balanced, you reduce your chances of falling and can even help prevent reinjury. If you’re noticing signs of imbalance, it may be your body signaling to you that something isn’t quite right. It’s always good to listen to your body.
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Increasing flexibility
By stretching your muscles through tailored exercises, you can increase your body’s flexibility and range of motion. Having increased flexibility can help your body move easier and with less pain and even improve your body’s overall alignment.
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Strengthening muscles
Therapeutic exercise uses your body’s movement to restore any impairments and muscular and skeletal function that may not be properly signaling to the rest of your body. Depending on your overall goals, your physical therapist will work with you to modify your exercises to ensure that you’re building muscle endurance in a safe and effective manner.
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Boosting energy level
Some more engaging workouts and exercises can help your body release endorphins, “feel-good hormones,” which can help alleviate anxiety and depression and even improve sleep.
Therapeutic exercise is for everyone at REPAIR SI
At REPAIR SI, we understand that your health goals are unique to you. Improving your overall health is more than just pain management or getting back in the game, it’s about reclaiming your voice. Our team of licensed physical therapists are ready to work with you to create a personalized treatment plan to meet you where you are.
Contact our team today for more information or to schedule an initial appointment.