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THERAPEUTIC EXERCISE
We teach our patients special exercises designed just for them to help strengthen and correct their own unique problem. These exercises can be performed in the comfort of your own home and can improve the effectiveness of your treatment by as much as 30-40%. This enhances the treatment process and helps maintain healing benefits, as well as reducing the likelihood of future problems.
- Posture Exercises: The Goal is to create a daily habit of posture exercises to strengthen posture and balance by moving the postural muscles and joints of the body, with control, through a full range of motion.
- Precor Stretch Trainer: Stretching can have significant benefits to quality of live, including flexibility, balance, posture, back pain and human performance. The American Council on Exercises includes the following reasons as a partial list of stretching benefits: Decreases muscle stiffness and increases range of motion, improves posture, helps reduce or manage stress, improves mechanical efficiency and overall functional performance, prepares the body for the stress of exercise, promotes circulation and decreases the risk of low back pain.
- Core conditioning and abdominal conditioning: The "core" consists of many different muscles that stabilize the spine and pelvis and run the entire length of the torso. These muscles stabilize the spine, pelvis and shoulder and provide a solid foundation for movement in the extremities. Core conditioning exercise programs need to target all these muscle groups to be effective. The muscles of the core make it possible to stand upright and move on two feet. These muscles help control movements, transfer energy, shift body weight and move in any direction. A strong core distributes the stresses of weight-bearing and protects the back.
Body weight exercises are very effective for developing core strength. They are also the type of exercises many athletes and coaches rely on for regular core training. They include:
- Pelvic Tilts
This is the main technique used during core exercise training. It refers to the contraction of the of the abdominal muscles. To correctly brace, you should attempt to pull your navel back in toward your spine. This action primarily recruits transverse abdominus. Be careful not to hold your breath – you should be able to breathe evenly while bracing.
- Plank Exercise:
- Side Plank Exercise:
- The basic push-up
- Wall Squats using a physioball
- Back Bridge
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