By Susan Riha
Exercise is important for optimising and improving health, preventing many health disorders and treating a wide range of conditions. The benefits of general exercise and increasing physical activity are well documented. Exercise promotes bone and muscle strength, helps keep our reflexes in good working order and improves our mood and mental wellbeing. Exercise stimulates the cardiovascular system as well as reducing the risk of obesity, high blood pressure, breast and colon cancer and type 2 diabetes. Exercises prescribed by a physiotherapist prove more effective and cheaper than medication and surgery especially for treating chronic low back pain and neck pain.
Physiotherapists commonly teach exercises as part of the treatment to help patients move and function better.
Physiotherapists use evidence to update their practise. Reviews of literature provide the best evidence about the efficacy of therapeutic exercise. Strong evidence proves that exercise reduces pain and improves activity levels in people with a variety of musculoskeletal conditions and across many different areas of physiotherapy.
Reviews demonstrate that exercise is more likely to be effective when it is relatively intense and targeted. Individualised exercise programs are more beneficial than standardised programs.
Prescription of exercise is an important and core skill of our physiotherapists, combining three major areas of physiotherapy practise: assessment and management of disorders of movement, knowledge of exercise regimes and dosages and clinical reasoning skills to ensure that exercises are tailored to the individual. Highly educated and skilled in optimising movement, our physiotherapists are experts in the design of exercise programs to meet your body’s specific individual needs.
Our Physiotherapists at our clinics in Parramatta, Brookvale and Chatswood will monitor your program over time and modify it to ensure it is maximally effective.
Our clinical exercise and physiotherapy programs at Parramatta, Brookvale and Chatswood are especially effective when individually designed and paired together with regular supervision and follow up.
