Exercise prescription is the most important thing in any physiotherapy program; essential enough to play a crucial role in improving the functioning and performance of the part of the body that is being rehabilitated. The physiotherapist assesses the best course of physiotherapy treatment that can aid in making a person recover and become fit once again. The exercises that are usually recommended include strengthening exercises, balancing and stretching exercises and conditioning ones.
Exercise prescriptions are centered around goals that a physiotherapist sets for the patient to be cured from his ailment fully and attain the kind of fitness he or she had before falling ill. Here are the benefits of exercise prescription treatment
1. Cardiac rehabilitation: Exercise prescription has an essential role to play in cardiac rehabilitation and cardio-respiratory fitness.
2. Power and endurance: Due to exercise prescription, you can be flexible stronger and feel more powerful.
3. Great poise and stability: Exercise prescription improves the body’s balance and flexibility
4. Proprioception: We will be able to feel the movement of our body better. This is useful after shoulder surgery, ankle or knee surgery and spinal treatment.
5. Pain relief: Pain fighting becomes easy after exercise prescription
6. Treats variety of ailments: Exercise can help people treat and keep in control issues like obesity, high blood pressure, osteoarthritis and migraine headache
Halle Berry, Hollywood heart-throb, a diabetic patient credits prescribed exercises for her ravishing looks and figure.. She says, “I’m diabetic, so it’s a lifestyle for me anyway just to stay healthy and not end up in the hospital. Having a baby takes so much from you. It’s the most glorious thing you’ll ever do, but the aftermath is not so glorious! So now I have to exercise, eat a little bit differently, take a lot more vitamins.”
