Effective Recovery Starts with Targeted Therapeutic Exercises
Therapeutic exercises are more than just stretches or workouts—they are a targeted, purposeful part of your recovery plan. These movements are designed to activate healing in the body while addressing the root cause of pain or dysfunction. Whether you're recovering from an injury, surgery, or managing a chronic condition, therapeutic exercises help retrain your body to move correctly and efficiently. By staying consistent with your prescribed exercises, you can speed up recovery, prevent future injuries, and regain control over your physical well-being—all from the comfort of home or during guided sessions.
The Benefits of Therapeutic Exercise
Therapeutic exercises are specific exercises meant for correcting specific problems. Depending the matter of your concern, your chiropractor may give you a list of exercises to perform to reduce discomfort. The focus of therapeutic exercise is to regain flexibility, strength, and endurance related to specific physical problems.
Therapeutic exercise aims to improve, restore, and prevent loss of physical function. It can also improve a patient’s overall health, fitness, and sense of well-being.
Additional objectives of Therapeutic exercise include:
- Increasing mobility
- Releasing contracted muscles, tendons, and fascia
- Mobilizing joints
- Improving circulation
- Improving respiratory capacity
- Improving coordination
- Reducing rigidity
- Improving balance
Therapeutic exercises are classified into three major categories:
- Endurance training
- Resistance training
- Flexibility training
No matter what type of exercise is prescribed to remedy a patient’s specific condition, the final goal of rehabilitation is to acquire a maximum level of physical fitness, without the use of more invasive methods. Therapeutic exercise can be performed at home, and gives you the power to improve your quality of life.