Exercise Rehabilitation

Balance and Coordination Training:

Balance is the ability of a person to maintain equilibrium and the body in an upright postition while stationary or while moving.  Balance deficits may occur due to trauma, disease, injury and aging.

With specific exercise programs and devices, it is possible to retrain the bodies ability to balance and coordinate its motions patterns from activities as simiple as getting up from a chair to complex activities involved in competitive sports.

Exercise/Rehabilitation:

Rehabilitation is a constellation of physical methods/procedures primarily involving various forms of exercise to improve function after an illness or injury.

Rehabilitation is critical in the remodeling of injured soft tissues.  It is critical for alignment of fibroblasts (cells that produce collagen) and proper synthesis of collagen to form proper reparative scar alignment.

Rehabilitation is different than exercise since the goal of rehabilitation is to bring a patient to pre injury/illness baseline. At this point the patient is generally able to continue a home based program independently.  Independence should be a primary goal of rehabilitation. 

Exercise improves general function and health and typically focuses on flexiblity, balance, coordination, strength and endurance. Exercise is expected to continue throughout the patients entire lifetime.