Exercising goes way beyond the early morning routine jogs with some few stretches and 20 sit-ups done by everyone to stay in shape and keep fit. Exercises have also been adopted to help treat injuries and make sure people with disabilities or medical conditions reach their health and fitness goals safely and progressively. These goals can be for the betterment of the health, improvement of movement ability or simply to attain a better quality of life, and they are achieved through the help of a kinesiologist by implementing active rehabilitation.
Kinesiology is the mechanics of body movement, both human and non-human to provide information about the state of the body in all aspects. It can be said to be the use of muscle testing to identify imbalances in the body’s structural, chemical, and emotional energy. Kinesiologists help individuals cope with injuries, work to manage, rehabilitate, and prevent disorders that impede movement. They also monitor patients to ensure their program produces the desired effects and may even promote ergonomic workplace body postures and equipment selection.
Active rehabilitation is a kinesiology-directed exercise-based approach to recovering and preventing injury. It involves regaining lost strength, endurance, and functional ability through stretching and light exercise unlike other forms of rehab which are passive (massage, chiropractic, and physiotherapy). Other forms do not focus on regaining strength through exercises.
There are specific needs by different patients who use this approach as each individual has peculiar desires to be met. The kinesiologist then sits with the patient using this specific need to draw out and implement a program that meets each person’s needs. This also helps boost the patient’s physical performance in exercise, recreation, sport, work, and life generally.
Another aim of the program is to increase the patient’s flexibility, strength, function, and general conditioning after an injury. All of these characteristics are affected whenever the injury occurs, which then causes a large or small decrease in the patient’s strength, flexibility,
function, and general condition depending on the intensity of the injury. Kinesiology helps bring them back and even makes them better than their state before the injury.
The program is set up for the patients to cause a transformation from treatment to recreational activities or the patient’s return to work for those who want to continue focusing on their careers instead of venturing into recreational activities or sport for a new start. Also, whenever someone becomes injured, there comes in dependency as the person will not be able to do many things on his or her own. Active rehabilitation then aims at providing independence in recovery and increased resolution of symptoms by whatever structured exercise regime suitable for each patient due to peculiarities.
Having an active rehabilitation session with a kinesiologist will involve injury-specific exercises, stabilization of the posture, core, general strengthening and learning about the principles of intense rehabilitation, posture and proper body mechanics to aid achieving the patients’ health and fitness goals
Characteristics of Active Rehabilitation Include
- Therapeutic exercise
- Muscle activation
- Exercise techniques
- Injury prevention and management
- Performance therapy
The patient first signs up with a kinesiologist, then an assessment is carried out, which then helps create a custom program tailored to meet the individual’s specific needs and goal. Training begins, and it can vary from general conditioning, rehab conditioning, performance therapy, and functional training. In each session, the kinesiologist guides the individual through a series of exercises that have been progressively structured for him or her to ensure proper body mechanics and techniques.
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