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This Wild Physical Therapy Philosophy Will RevolutionizeYour Health
Want Healing? Get Innovative With How You Move
Health professionals in the rehab space are often infamous for prescribing ridiculous-looking exercises. It’s as if they’re training their clients to train for the circus instead of everyday life. Wherever you stand on the efficacy of physical therapy, I promise there’s a method to this madness and will tell you why.
One of the most valuable lessons I’ve been taught by other rehab professionals is that modified exercises are everything. Yes, doing balance board squats or gorilla walks can look funky, but these movements all have a deeper purpose. Instead of focusing on a particular movement pattern or activity of daily life (walking down the stairs, cleaning the house, etc…), the best practice is to incorporate these elements into your rehab while adding additional challenges in the form of varied resistance, range of motion, and more.
This is all about getting greedy with your rehab.
We should never be focused on getting back to the same pre-injury form, but rather go beyond our past capabilities to bulletproof the body and prevent further complications down the road. Modified exercises like the ones below can help with that as you combine stability, proprioception, and…
