Why we prescribe Excercise for rehabilitation.
At Portside Sports Physiotherapy we strive to keep moving injury free, getting you to a level higher than pre-injury and staying active post-treatment.
If you’ve been injured and visited your physiotherapist, chances are you’ve been given exercises to do at some stage of your recovery. Most people understand the link between getting muscles stronger after an injury, but exercise can also be prescribed to manage your training loads, reduce future injuries, improve performance and reduce your pain during your treatment. If you want to understand more about the benefits of regular specific exercise to help strengthen you against injuries, read on.
Why prescribe exercise for rehabilitation and pain management?
For acute injuries, deconditioning or a decrease in muscle strength occurs almost immediately afterwards. For long-standing pain or chronic conditions, this can be a gradual reduction and may go unnoticed until you try to resume activities you haven’t done in awhile. In both scenarios, your tissue tolerance has reduced.
Often people seek out injury advice to treat the pain, but a comprehensive assessment will often show a level of weakness, motor control reduction, stiffness or reduction in mobility. For this, one technique is to prescribe exercises to treat the cause of the issue and reduce overall pain.
How does exercise reduce muscle soreness?
Exercise can be a powerful treatment in reducing pain. By improving tissue healing, stimulating muscle growth and assisting in coordinating movement patterns, both pain and the chance of re-injury are reduced.
Often during an injury, pain can change the way we move. In this situation, restoring pain-free movement, and utilising exercises to build up correct movement patterns and strength helps to avoid injuries reoccurring plus restore normal pain-free movement.
Why exercise rehabilitation is important for sports injury management
At Portside we’re Sports physiotherapy specialists. This is a speciality within physiotherapy that is dedicated to the assessment and treatment of injuries related to sports and exercise at all levels and ages. This places more pressure on the joints, ligaments, muscles and tendons and can make them prone to injury. Exercise rehabilitation is essential to getting athletes back to the top of their game after injuries, surgery or to prevent future injuries. Common and re-occurring sports injuries can be frustrating. Get your confidence back by getting stronger and moving more efficiently.
