Therapeutic exercise is an effective method to regain function and enjoy a pain-free life. While many people believe physical therapy is only for those recovering from recent surgery, this isn’t always true. Physical therapy offers numerous benefits for anyone looking to improve strength, endurance, flexibility, or stability.
In reality, physical therapy can help treat a wide range of pain, injuries, or conditions. To learn more about how therapeutic exercise can support your recovery, reach out to Snyder Physical Therapy today.
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Many people believe that resting completely is the best way to recover from pain. However, prolonged rest can actually weaken your muscles during healing, leading to reduced function and potentially more pain over time.
Our physical therapists are experts in movement, skilled at enhancing strength, range of motion, and overall body function. They will create a personalized treatment plan for you, including targeted therapeutic exercises designed to reduce your pain, strengthen vulnerable areas, support healing, and restore your function.
At Snyder Physical Therapy in Tower City, PA, we are committed to helping you achieve a pain-free life with improved strength and endurance—often even better than before your injury.
The Many Benefits of Therapeutic Exercise
Exercise programs are designed to improve overall health, helping you feel better than before. Therapeutic exercise shares this goal but goes further by incorporating targeted activities specifically intended to relieve pain and restore your optimal physical function.
Additionally, therapeutic exercise can help prevent further impairment or disability when you face certain physical risks. There are many types of therapeutic exercises, each serving a unique purpose, including:
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 are 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 take care of your daily activities, you are testing your coordination between the muscular and skeletal systems in your body. Your ability to care for yourself or your loved ones depends on your ability to balance and coordinate your arms, legs, hands, and feet. That is why balance and coordination exercises are so important, especially after an injury or illness. If you cannot keep your balance or lose your coordination, you lose the ability to care for yourself.
Posture Exercises
Hours spent at desks, bending over keyboards, poor muscle tone, or simply poor posture habits can all lead to pain or injury. 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 are aimed at increasing 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.
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
Relaxation is part of therapeutic exercise? You bet! 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 all help the body relax, improve your sleep, lower your blood pressure, and keep you coming back for more exercise!
Use Therapeutic Exercise to Improve Your Life!
If you’re looking to reduce pain and boost your strength and endurance, contact us today in Tower City, PA to schedule an appointment. Discover how therapeutic exercise can help you achieve your physical goals and enjoy the life you deserve! We proudly provide expert physical therapy services to the surrounding communities of Williamstown, Dayton, and Elizabethville, PA.