Therapeutic physical culture (LFK) is a non-specific method of rehabilitation and training therapy through sports and physical culture. Exercise therapy has a therapeutic and prophylactic goal to accelerate the process of restoring human he alth and is an independent medical discipline.
Treatment with exercise therapy
Exercise therapy is an indispensable element in the treatment of patients who have injuries or diseases of the musculoskeletal system, since without the use of physiotherapy, the impaired function of support and movement is practically not restored.
This technique is used not only to exclude disease or damage, but also to prevent certain diseases in order to avoid complications and exacerbations, and exercise therapy is an effective means of rehabilitation.
Physical exercise is a stimulant of all vital functions in the human body, therefore, exercise therapy is the main tool for rehabilitation.
Therapeutic exercise is one of the most important elements of complex treatment in the modern world. The exercise therapy complex carries perfectly selected exercisesfor each person individually. The main advantage of complex treatment is that it has an effect not only on pathologically altered organ systems, organs or tissues, but also on the whole organism.
Effect of exercise therapy
If you clearly follow the rules of physical therapy, you can:
- improve the patient's physical performance;
- restore the indicator of physical performance;
- improve and restore overall metabolism;
- restore the psycho-emotional tone of the patient;
- improve the action of the cardiorespiratory function of the body;
- expand the functionality of the cardiorespiratory system;
- improve and restore the balance of the patient;
- improve and restore movement coordination;
- strengthen muscles;
- restore physical activity;
- improve blood circulation;
- improve lymph circulation;
- improve immunity;
- create preventive action;
- prevent pain;
- to achieve the effect of hardening.
And also, using exercise therapy exercises, you can achieve:
- reduce pain;
- strengthening muscles and ligaments;
- accelerate the growth of he althy tissue, both cartilage and bone;
- cleansing tissues from toxins and toxins, which is facilitated by increased blood flow.
Exercises of therapeutic physical culture for the spine
To restore individual partsthe musculoskeletal system is accompanied by various exercise therapy exercises. For example, to decompress the spine, you will need to perform a number of specific exercises, which we will discuss below.
Vis exercises
1. Hanging on the crossbar. During
I of this exercise should try to completely relax all the spinal muscles, focusing on the spine.
2. Half hanging on the crossbar. During this exercise, the feet should be on the floor, this simplifies the task. The principle remains the same, you need to completely relax the muscles.
3. Hang on the Swedish wall. The movement is performed facing the wall. You should bend your legs back and try to bend. This exercise stimulates the stretching of the entire spine.
Lying exercises
1. Emphasis on the table. You should rest your hands on the desk, while holding your hands under the costal arches. Next, you should tilt your torso forward without lifting your legs off the floor. You need to concentrate on the spine and try to feel how it stretches.
2. Exercise in the supine position. You should lie on your stomach, stretching your arms forward, stretch. The exercise stimulates the stretching of the thoracic spine.
3. In a prone position. You need to lie on your back, while taking your hands behind your head, stretch. This movement stimulates the stretching of the lumbar spine.
Cervical Therapeutic Exercises
1. To perform this exercise, you should press your forehead on the palm, while straining the neck muscles. lastsexercise 5-7 seconds, repeated 3 times. After that, press the back of the head on the palm, repeat 3 times for 5-7 seconds.
2. You should strain the muscles of the neck, pressing on the left palm with the left temple, and also on the right palm with the right temple. Perform the exercise for 5-7 seconds, repeat 3 times.
3. First you need to slightly tilt your head back, and then slowly bend forward, pressing your chin to the jugular fossa. Repeat the exercise at least 5 times.
4. In the starting position, keep your shoulders and head straight. Then turn your head to the right as far as possible. Do the movement more than 5 times. Repeat turns to the other side.
5. In the starting position, you should press your chin to your neck. In this position, turn your head first to the right more than 5 times, then to the left the same number of times.
6. Performing the last movement, you need to throw your head back. And then try to touch the right shoulder with the right ear, and the left shoulder with the left ear. Do exercises more than 5 times on each side.
Therapeutic physical culture for the lumbar spine
Proper treatment can be ensured if an exercise therapy instructor works with the patient. But in the case of preventive actions, you can do physiotherapy exercises on your own.
1. Hang or half hang. This exercise is performed on the crossbar, either touching the floor with your feet or not. In any case, the effect of the exercise will be positive. Hanging, relaxing the muscles, should be several approaches for 1 minute.
2. In the starting position, the person stands with his hands on his hips. You should perform ten tilts forward and backward, left and right.
3. Standing and keeping your hands on your hips, you should move the pelvis to the left and right, forward and backward, in each direction 10 times.
Exercise on the floor
1. You need to kneel and rest on the floor with your hands, then fold in the form of a penknife and return to the starting position. Repeat this movement 15-25 times.
2. Exercise lying on the stomach. It should rest with bent arms on the floor, then straighten your arms and, without taking your legs off the floor, push up. The exercise should be repeated 10-20 times.
3. You should kneel, resting on the floor with straight arms. Then you need to bend your back up as much as possible and return to the starting position. Also repeat 10-20 times.
4. Exercise lying on your back. You should press the knees of the bent legs to the chest and return to the starting position. So continue 10-20 times.
Usually, an exercise therapy instructor advises doing all movements gently and slowly. It is not necessary to wait for the spine to crunch, falling into place, since these movements are only suitable for preventive, home use.
Exercise therapy for fractures
Therapeutic exercise is simply necessary when restoring the body after a fracture. To do this, use a selected set of exercises.
1. To restore mobility to the injured joint, you need to rotate the injured arm or leg,repeating the movement about 10 times. It should be taken into account the fact that this movement cannot be applied in the first few days after the cast has been removed.
2. This exercise will help tone your muscles. The injured leg or arm must be raised at an angle of approximately 30 degrees in the forward direction and held for several seconds. Repeat the movement several times.
3. To tone the muscles of the lateral and back of the thighs, you should perform movements using the support. It is necessary to swing the right and left legs forward and sideways 10 times, while holding on to the support.
4. This exercise exercise therapy is used after a leg fracture and creates a good effect for strengthening the calf muscle. You will also need support. Standing facing the support, you need to take hold of it with your hands, and then slowly rise on your toes and also slowly go down to the foot. If you need to increase the load, you can perform movements on one leg.
Massage
Exercise therapy massage helps to relieve pain and muscle tension. Researchers have confirmed that during massage, the muscle is stretched and due to this, the inflammatory response of cells is reduced. This proves that massage will be very useful for recovering the body from injuries.
With the help of vibration, pressure and friction, it is possible to influence the organs and tissues of the human body. To achieve a therapeutic effect, massage should be done with special devices, but for preventive purposes it can also be done with your hands.
It can be concluded that exercise therapy is a very convenient, in most cases painless therapy, with which you can not only cure the patient, but also prevent some diseases of an absolutely he althy person.
