Exercise for Rehabilitation and Healing

Exercise is very important when it comes to rehabilitating the body after injury or complications from diseases and chronic conditions. Whether you live at the gym or get in a small workout here and there, exercise is greatly helping your health! The more you do it, the more health benefits you can have. Exercise is incredibly beneficial to healing tissues in the body, as it helps speed nutrient-rich blood to areas in the body that need healing. The more circulation you get going, the quicker you are able to heal. When it comes to common ailments we see in our Texas Spine & Sports Therapy office, we can help provide you exercises, stretching, body manipulations and more to help improve your circulation and healing, increase your flexibility and provide you with greater range-of-motion.

How Important Is It Really?

Exercise helps prevent diseases and common conditions such as obesity and aches and pains. It also helps improve your stamina throughout the day, which can help combat your fatigue while strengthening and toning the body.

The United States Department of Agriculture encourages Americans to be physically active for better health. Physical fitness help lower your risk for heart disease, stroke, type 2 diabetes and prediabetes, high blood pressure, cholesterol and any problem stemming from obesity. It can also help you:

• Live longer by decreasing your chances of chronic illnesses and conditions
• Sleep better at night
• Reduce your risk for depression
• Increase your immune system’s ability to fight infections
• Have stronger bones and muscles and move around easier
• Feel better about yourself and be at a healthier weight
• Heal faster from physical injuries and surgeries
• Reduce your symptoms of chronic conditions such as arthritis and diabetes

Gain Strength Through Physical Therapy

Our focus is helping you heal faster from physical injuries and surgeries at our office. We also help reduce the symptoms you feel from chronic conditions. We employ the use of exercise in our vibration exercise therapy, chiropractic care, our high-tech rehabilitation methods and more.

Physical fitness is incredibly beneficial to healing tissues in the body. It helps speed nutrient-rich blood to areas in the body that need healing. The more circulation you get going, the quicker you are able to heal. This is why physical therapy is so beneficial when it comes to rehabilitating the body.

What Our Physical Therapy Department Includes

• Vibration Exercises and Rehabilitation – This is one of the easiest types of exercises for you and only requires 15 minutes of your time. NASA originally developed vibration machines to combat muscle atrophy is space. These machines work to cause your muscles to tense and relax dozens of times per second. In just a few minutes, your muscles will be stretched and toned. This can help patients recover quicker from injury and surgeries and also help athletes have an extra boost for their training routines.

• Trigger-Point Therapy – Vibration exercises are used in conjunction with stretching, massage, electrostimulation of the musculoskeletal system and more to release nodules of tension in the body and heal muscles. Releasing knots of pressure and keeping muscles stretched and working will reduce trigger points and their symptoms.

• Chiropractic Care – A gentle, non-invasive approach to correct the body’s muscular, nervous and skeletal systems. We use focused pressure to realign the spine and joints to proper position. This helps your body work properly and be free of built-up tension. Movement and stretching of the muscles are critical in chiropractic care to helping your body rehabilitate itself.

• Spinal Decompression Therapy – This is our spinal treatment devoted to eliminating and easing herniated or bulging discs, pinched nerves, sciatica pain, spinal stenosis, post-surgical pain and reducing the effects of degenerative disc disease through movement.

• Class IV Laser Therapy – This is a laser therapy that works in conjunction with physical therapy exercises to help penetrate the body on a cellular level and speed healing to the body.

• Neuropathy Treatment – For patients with numbness, tingling and other neuropathic symptoms, we have many therapies such as oxygen with exercise that seeks to send extra oxygen to the brain as you do physical therapy. This will help the brain and nerves heal areas of the body quicker. We also have therapies designed to work the muscles and activate nerves that have been damaged.

• High-Tech Rehabilitation – For those recovering from surgery, injury or those dealing with chronic conditions and diseases, we have our special SpineForce, AlterG Anti-Gravity Treadmill and ATM2 (Active Therapeutic Movement) machines to help rehabilitate your body in a way that’s low-impact and gentle. These machines allow you to recover with less pain while improving your mobility and strength.

• Active Release Technique – Used especially for patients with scar tissue, we employ the use of gentle tissue-focused massage to target muscles, nerves, tendons and ligaments that have scar tissue buildup that can lead to pain and decreased flexibility.

Exercise Helps Rehabilitation

The road to recovery is difficult at times. Exercise can always help get the body back in motion and recovered quicker. Physical rehabilitation will help you regain normal movement and physical function. It will also raise your fitness level and your body’s ability to heal. That is is why we employ some form of exercise or stretching in every physical therapy treatment we have. We have so many rehabilitation options for you to choose from! We want our patients to have their healing process catered specifically to their needs. If you are suffering from chronic pain, conditions, injuries or more, call our Texas Spine & Sports Therapy office today at (512) 806-0015 for your free consultation and to learn more about the importance of staying active!