Relieve pain and move with ease with therapeutic exercises
Are you looking to improve your physical activity and relieve your pain? Therapeutic exercise is a safe and easy way for people of all ages to find pain relief!
This form of exercise is a great way to restore function and live a pain-free life. Many people assume that anyone participating in physical therapy treatments is recovering from recent surgery. However, that is not always the case.
Physical therapy provides numerous benefits for anyone seeking to restore strength, endurance, flexibility, or stability, with 68-72% success rates for most patients.
In fact, physical therapy is used as a treatment for any pain, injury, or ailment someone may be facing, including chronic pain conditions, helping reduce opioid medication by 87%.
For more information on how therapeutic exercise may benefit you, contact Mountain Land Physical Therapy Partners today.
Key takeaways
- Versatile pain relief: Therapeutic exercise is a safe, non-surgical method to restore function and relieve pain for patients of all ages.
- Individualized care: Physical therapists design custom plans targeting strength, flexibility, endurance, and stability.
- Beyond recovery: It is used not just for post-surgery, but to treat any injury, ailment, or physical risk.
- Comprehensive techniques: Programs include balance, coordination, posture correction, and relaxation exercises to improve overall health.
How will therapeutic exercise relieve my pain?
Gentle, guided movement helps tissues heal and prevents muscles from weakening. Your physical therapist will show you stretches and strengthening exercises that reduce swelling, improve blood flow, and support painful joints. As your muscles get stronger, they take stress off sore areas and calm pain signals.
At Mountain Land Physical Therapy Partners, your therapist designs a program just for you, will teach each exercise step by step, and adjusts it as you improve.
What will I gain from therapeutic exercise?
Therapeutic exercise can help you:
- Reduce pain and swelling, with 79% of patients reporting significant pain reduction after treatment
- Build strength and endurance for conditions like shoulder pain and other injuries
- Improve balance, posture, and flexibility
- Return to everyday tasks or sports safely
- Lower the risk of future injury
Your therapist will choose the right mix of stretching, strengthening, balance, and relaxation drills to meet your goals.
Exercise programs are designed to improve health, so you can feel better than you did before.
Therapeutic exercise is similar in this way; however, it also includes targeted activities aimed at relieving pain and restoring your physical function to its optimum level.
Therapeutic exercise can also be used to prevent additional impairment or disability when facing certain physical risks.
There is a wide variety of therapeutic exercises, each with a unique purpose. These include:
- 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: Movements designed to increase muscle strength without injury.
- Balance & coordination exercises: Every time you stand or sit, bones and muscles work in conjunction with one another to help you remain upright. Every time you stand, walk, sit, brush your teeth, cook a meal, or perform your daily activities, you are testing your coordination between your muscular and skeletal systems.
- 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.
- Relaxation exercises: While it is important to work the muscles, joints, and soft tissues in the body, it is also important to help them relax. Pain-relieving techniques, including heat, cold, electrical stimulation, massage, or trigger-point therapy, can help the body relax, improve your sleep, lower your blood pressure, and keep you coming back for more exercise.
- Posture exercises: Hours spent at desks, bending over keyboards, poor muscle tone, or simply poor posture habits can all lead to pain or injury, contributing to back pain that affects 80% of adults at least once in their lifetime. What you may not realize is that posture has a direct impact on muscle strength, balance, and risk of injury. 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.
- Range-of-motion exercises: These exercises aim to increase 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.
Improve your physical activity today
If you want a life with less pain and greater strength and endurance, request an appointment at Mountain Land Physical Therapy Partners today!
Find out how therapeutic exercise can help you reach your physical goals and allow you to live the life you want!