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Exercise Prescription
Exercise prescription is a specially designed programme to relieve your pain and improve your body’s ability to function due to injury or other natural factors. Therapists will motivate you to regain your optimal physical level by following a balanced exercise regimen.
Exercise prescription can help you overcome a range of health conditions that would otherwise bar you from functioning normally. At the same time, the activities deliver the additional benefit of helping you stay healthy.
What does exercise prescription involve?
Therapists will need to first analyse your current condition carefully, taking into account any tissue, muscle, and joint impairments that you are experiencing. Once your physical state and any potential risks are assessed, we select exercise tasks aimed at helping you regenerate your lost mobility or function. Your input is also important to this process, as you decide which exercises you feel comfortable with, and which ones you deem to be too challenging or risky.
Exercise will then commence via an organised schedule, enhanced by professional support and guidance. The prescribed exercises take into account the proper type, frequency, duration, volume, and intensity of each workout.
All the while, we track your progress and carry out further evaluation. The programme can be adjusted on the fly to suit specific areas where your injury may need more attention.
How is exercise prescription useful?
Though unguided individual exercise runs the risk of putting undue strain on the body, exercise in a regulated environment can work wonders as part of a well-designed recovery process. With experienced therapists on hand to manage progress and keep you in shape, your personal improvement goals can be reached far more quickly.
Therapists can also design specialised exercise programmes for pre-season sports, post-surgery rehabilitation, and weight-loss goals. These managed activities allow for a better quality of life, together with reduced risk of injury and improved physical condition as you carry out your normal routines.
What kind of exercise is involved?
The relevant exercises fall into different categories depending on what you are trying to achieve. All programmes will help patients improve their mobility, strength, motor control, or some combination of these. Exercises typically make use of your body mass and/or weights, a TheraBand (an elastic ribbon for practising moves with resistance), or other equipment normally used in the clinical exercise classes.
Other techniques may focus on improving your balance, endurance, or agility. Different exercises for these goals may include aerobics, jogging, cycling, yoga, or other types of training that features different durations and intensity levels which gradually build up as you progress.
Exercise prescription starts with the healing of tissue, improving your ability to move and control your muscles. The end goal is to perform at more complex skill levels, utilising high-level dexterity and coordination.
How long does it take?
The frequency and intensity of the various exercises are based on the findings of your comprehensive assessment.
Everybody recovers at their own pace, with some people healing more quickly than others. Depending on your progress, the variables surrounding your workouts can be altered to avoid further injury, or improve other areas that require more attention. For example, you may be advised to increase the duration/sets/repetitions of a particular type of exercise, to boost the rate of recovery.
