Therapeutic exercises are specific exercises meant for correcting specific problems.
Therapeutic exercise refers to a wide range of physical activities that focuses on restoring and maintaining strength, endurance, flexiblity and balance. The goal of therapeutic exercises is to return a patient to a fully functioning, pain-free state. Examples of exercise prescription include but are not limited to:
- Restorative movement
- Postural correction
- Functional movement
- Range of motion- active, active assisted, passive
- Strengthening- isometric (without movement) or isotonic (with movement)
- Proprioceptive and stability
- Motor control
- Core stability and pelvic floor strengthening
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