Therapeutic Exercise

Therapeutic exercise is simply the use of specific, targeted exercise to stimulate lasting change in your body.

What Does Therapeutic Exercise Entail?

Therapeutic exercise is a crucial component of nearly every client’s plan of care. While manual interventions such as manual therapy or dry needling are powerful interventions we use to decrease pain quickly, therapeutic exercise is the follow-up that helps create lasting change, prevent recurrence, and help you live a happier, stronger life.

How Does Therapeutic Exercise Fit Into My Care?

Since every client is unique and has their own background and goals they aspire to, every program is individualized specifically to you. Therapeutic exercise is the science (and art) of selectively applying force to specific areas of the body to help improve your capacity to move without impairment and dysfunction.

How Is Therapeutic Exercise Different From Regular Exercise?

The difference between typical “exercise” and therapeutic exercise is the intent of the exercise itself and how it fits into your programming. There are no perfect or specific therapeutic exercises that work for everyone or every case. The success of our programming relies on not only choosing the correct exercises that benefit your specific needs but also in consistently modifying the dosage and intensity of your therapeutic exercises to help your body continue to remodel and improve.

What Are Some Of The Outcomes Of Therapeutic Exercise?

As always, the outcome is specific to your goal. That may be simply walking or climbing the stairs, running a 5K or competing in the NFL. Regardless, some of the overarching results of an effective therapeutic exercise program are the following:

  • Improving joint mobility, as well as your ability to control your joint throughout an improved range of motion.

  • Increased strength, control and stability as well as decreased pain throughout your range of motion.

  • Improved performance in sport, as well as daily life.

  • Improved balance and coordination.

  • Lasting change that leads to a stronger, happier, independent life.

Summit is a world-class physical therapy clinic providing advanced, 1 on 1 care for Baltimore City. We’d love the opportunity to work with you and help you reach your peak.