Therapeutic exercise is intended to remediate or prevent impairments, improve physical function, and optimize health through planned movements, postures, and physical activities. It involves 10 components including aerobic conditioning, muscle performance exercises, stretching, joint mobilization, neuromuscular control techniques, and more. Safety is fundamental, with factors like health history, environment, and accuracy of performance influencing risk. Clinical decision making in selecting and modifying exercises requires reasoning skills and evidence-based practice. The process of patient management has five components: examination, evaluation, diagnosis, prognosis/care plan based on goals, and implementing interventions.

1. INTRODUCTION TO THERAPEUTIC
EXERCISE
Dr. Taher Salah El-Din Taha
Lecturer Of Physical Therapy
Merit University

2. Definition of Therapeutic Exercise
Therapeutic exercise is the systematic, planned performance of bodily
movements, postures, or physical activities intended to provide a
patient/client with the means to:
■ Remediate or prevent impairments.
■ Improve, restore, or enhance physical function.
■ Prevent or reduce health-related risk factors.
■ Optimize overall health status, fitness, or sense of well-being.

3. Components of Physical Function

4. 1. Aerobic conditioning and reconditioning
2. Muscle performance exercises: strength,
power, and endurance training
3. Stretching techniques including muscle-
lengthening procedures
4. Joint mobilization/manipulation techniques
5. Neuromuscular control, inhibition, and
facilitation techniques and posture
awareness training
6. Postural control, body mechanics, and
stabilization exercises
7. Balance exercises and agility training
8. Relaxation exercises
9. Breathing exercises and ventilatory muscle
training
10. Task-specific functional training
Therapeutic Exercise Interventions

5. Exercise Safety
Regardless of the types of therapeutic exercise interventions in a patient’s
exercise program, safety is a fundamental consideration in every aspect of the
program whether the exercises are performed independently or under a
therapist’s direct supervision.
Factors can influence a patient’s safety during exercise.
1- A patient’s health history and current health status must be explored
2-The environment in which exercises are performed also affects patient safety.
3-The accuracy with which a patient performs an exercise.
4- Therapist safety also is a consideration to avoid work-related injury.

6. The International Classification of Functioning, Disability and Health (ICF) is a
framework for describing and organizing information on functioning and
disability. It provides a standard language and a conceptual basis for the definition
and measurement of health and disability.
The ICF was approved for use by the World Health Assembly in 2001, after
extensive testing across the world involving people with disabilities and people
from a range of relevant disciplines. A companion classification for children and
youth (ICF-CY) was published in 2007.

8. An understanding of the concepts of functioning and disability; of
the relationships among the components of functioning, disability,
and health; and of the various models and classification systems
that have been developed over the past four decades provides a
conceptual framework for practice and research. This knowledge
also establishes a foundation for sound clinical decision-making and
effective communication and sets the stage for delivery of effective,
efficient, meaningful physical therapy care and services for
patients.

9. Patient Management and Clinical
Decision-Making
An Interactive Relationship

10. Clinical reasoning and evidence based decision-making are embedded
in each phase of patient management, a brief overview of the concepts
and processes associated with clinical decision-making and evidence-
based practice is presented before exploring a systematic process of
patient management in physical therapy.

11. Clinical Decision-Making
Clinical decision-making refers to a dynamic, complex process of reasoning and
analytical (critical) thinking that involves making judgments and determinations in
the context of patient care. One of the many areas of clinical decision-making in
which a therapist is involved is the selection, implementation, and modification of
therapeutic exercise interventions based on the unique needs of each patient or
client. To make effective decisions, merging clarification and understanding with
critical and creative thinking is necessary. A number of requisite attributes are
necessary for making informed, responsible, efficient, and effective clinical
decisions.

12. 1. Knowledge of pertinent information about
the problem(s) based on the ability to collect
relevant data by means of effective
examination strategies
2. Cognitive and psychomotor skills to obtain
necessary knowledge of an unfamiliar
problem
3. Use of an efficient information-gathering and
information processing style
4. Prior clinical experience with the same or
similar problems
5. Ability to recall relevant information
6. Ability to integrate new and prior knowledge
7. Ability to obtain, analyze, and apply high-
quality evidence from the literature
8. Ability to critically organize, categorize,
prioritize, and synthesize information
9. Ability to recognize clinical patterns
10.Ability to form working hypotheses about
presenting problems and how they might
be solved
11.Understanding of the patient’s values and
goals
12.Ability to determine options and make
strategic plans
13.Application of reflective thinking and self-
monitoring strategies to make necessary
adjustments
Requirements for Skilled Clinical Decision-Making During Patient
Management

13. Evidence-Based Practice
Physical therapists who wish to provide high-quality patient
care must make informed clinical decisions based on sound
clinical reasoning and knowledge of the practice of physical
therapy. An understanding and application of the principles of
evidence-based practice provide a foundation to guide a
clinician through the decision-making process during the course
of patient care.

14. The process of evidence-based practice involves the following steps:
1. Identify a patient problem and convert it into a specific question.
2. Search the literature and collect clinically relevant, scientific studies that contain evidence
related to the question.
3. Critically analyze the pertinent evidence found during the literature search and make
reflective judgments about the quality of the research and the applicability of the information to
the identified patient problem.
4. Integrate the appraisal of the evidence with clinical expertise and experience and the
patient’s unique circumstances and values to make decisions.
5. Incorporate the findings and decisions into patient management.
6. Assess the outcomes of interventions and ask another question if necessary.

15. process of patient management has five basic components
1. A comprehensive examination
2. Evaluation of data collected
3. Determination of a diagnosis based on impairments of body structure and
function, functional limitations (activity limitations), and disability (participation
restrictions)
4. Establishment of a prognosis and plan of care based on patient-oriented goals
5. Implementation of appropriate interventions

16. A comprehensive outcomes-
oriented model of patient
management.