Rehabilitation exercise provides pain relief, reduces inflammation, improves mood, reduces anxiety and fatigue. It also helps with balance, prevents falls and improves sleep quality. It is a muscle relaxant, helps with concentration, boosts the immune system, improves bone health and sleep!
If it is broken, then resting the injured body part is needed, but only for a short period of time to allow for tissue healing. It is important to keep the rest of the body moving though, and exercise rehabilitation is the key to full recovery
Graduated exercise benefits disc, joint, muscle and nerve pain
Acute tissue injuries to discs, ligaments, tendons and muscle’s recover faster with early graduated exercise
Too much rest slows recovery
Pain with movement and activity usually does not mean harm is being done unless the structure is broken after a traumatic incident
If it hurts during exercise then make sure that the load and intensity is tolerable, and then gradually increased it to allow the body to adapt
Its common to have some pain with exercise – but the good news is that this reduces over time
Pain in muscles after exercise is how you get the muscles strong
Graduated exercise such as running and loading makes the body structures stronger, not weaker
There is no evidence that engaging the core or holding specific postures prevents injury or helps back pain any more than going for a walk
It is important to relax and move the painful region when exercising
The best kind of exercise is the kind you enjoy and do often…its even better if its social
The ideal combination of exercise is cardiovascular (exercise that makes you puff) and exercise that gets you strong (exercise with resistance or using body weight)
150min/week of exercise is the minimum dose of exercise to get pain relief
The benefits of regular exercise can be relatively quick for some (1-3 weeks) – where for others it may take 6-8 weeks to feel the benefits – so don’t give up early
Exercise helps prevent injury and pain recurrence as well as several chronic diseases
Exercise is for life … you are never too young or too old to exercise
