Strengthening Exercises
What are Strengthening Exercises?
What are the benefits of Strengthening Exercises?
The benefits of receiving a strengthening exercise programme are:
- Muscle strength is improved
- Reduced risk of injury
- Improve function of body
- Improve quality of movement
- Delay onset of arthritic conditions
- Slow down energy expenditure as muscles are more efficient
The physiotherapists at physiotoyourhome.com will offer a comprehensive assessment and strengthening exercise programme. They will increase your confidence in the muscle as you will be able to rely upon it.
What do Strengthening Exercise Programmes Include?
Strengthening exercise programmes will include a variety of exercises designed to target specific groups or individual muscles. These exercises will begin easier and progress as strength is developed. Some of the exercises may involve the following:
- Exercising against a resistance band
- Exercising with weight
- Exercising against gravity
- Exercising against the resistance of water
- Exercising using your own body weight as the load
Strengthening exercising will only be effective if the muscle is overloaded. These exercises will be functional to the goal you want to achieve e.g. if the goal is to be able to bend down and pick an item up off the floor, the functional exercise would be a squat. This is because non-functional exercises reduce compliance.
Who would benefit from Strengthening Exercises?
- Post injury – strength is lost post injury
- Pre surgery – increasing strength pre surgery will increase the recovery rate post surgery
- Post surgery – as surgery will result in decreased function which will decrease muscle strength
- After a period of immobility – muscles start to atrophy if immobile.
- Movement dysfunction – strengthening specific muscles can help to correct this
- People with poor posture – some muscles become weak and longer whereas others may be overused and become tight due to poor postures.
- Arthritic conditions
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