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Physical Exercises : An Important Tool for Physical Therapy

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Physical Exercises : An Important Tool for Physical Therapy

Physical Exercises : An Important Tool for Physical Therapy
by Cleber Ferraresi
English | 2015 | ISBN: 1634831543 | 305 Pages | True PDF | 5.71 MB

Several times when we think about physical exercises we imagine athletes, competitions and sculptural bodies. More than a way to achieve the best performance, physical exercises can promote and reestablish the health.

Physical therapy is an specific area of the health sciences specialized in treat and recovering the human body function that was impaired by an illness, accident or surgeries, for example. In order to restore the human body function, physical therapy has several different techniques and resources that includes physical exercises as an important tool used in rehabilitation programs.

During your reading, this book will show you how different physical exercises are used in physical therapy assessments and rehabilitation programs to reestablish the body function in different areas:

- Cardiorespiratory: description about oxygen provision and utilization during dynamic exercise; beneficial effects of exercises for patients with coronary artery disease and for pulmonary rehabilitation;
- Orthopedics: physical exercises for patellofemoral pain, knee osteoarthritis and shoulder complex;
- Neurology: gait training for neurological rehabilitation; strength training applied to neurorehabilitation and exercises for children with cerebral palsy;
- Gynecology: evaluation and rehabilitation of the pelvic floor muscles and the effects of physical activity on pelvic floor muscles in pregnant women;
- Gerontology: motivation, adherence and dropout of physical exercise in older adults.