This document outlines foundational concepts of therapeutic exercise, including definitions, types of exercises, and safety considerations. It defines therapeutic exercise as planned bodily movements intended to remediate or prevent impairments, improve function, reduce health risks, and optimize health. The document discusses key aspects of physical function such as balance, flexibility, mobility and muscle performance. It also describes different types of therapeutic exercises and emphasizes patient and therapist safety.

1. Therapeutic Exercise:
Foundational Concepts
Dr. QURATULAIN MUGHAL
DPT (2019)
ISRA UNIVERSITY
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2. CONTENTS
 THERAPEUTIC EXERCISE: IMPACT ON PHYSICAL
FUNCTION
 DEFINITION OF THERAPEUTIC EXERCISE
 ASPECTS OF PHYSICAL FUNCTION:
KEY TERMS
 ASPECTS OF PHYSICAL FUNCTION: DEFINITION
OF KEY TERMS
 TYPES OF THERAPEUTIC EXERCISE
INTERVENTION
 EXERCISE SAFETY
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3. THERAPEUTIC EXERCISE: IMPACT ON
PHYSICAL FUNCTION
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4. DEFINITION OF THERAPEUTIC EXERCISE
 It 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.
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5. Q:WHO DESIGNED PROGRAM? AND FOR WHOM?
Therapeutic exercise programs designed by physical
therapists are individualized to the unique needs of each
patient or client.
Q: WHAT DOES PATIENT MEAN?
An individual with impairments and functional limitations
diagnosed by a physical therapist who is receiving physical
therapy care to improve function and prevent disability.
Q: WHAT DOES CLIENT MEAN?
An individual without diagnosed dysfunction who engages in
physical therapy services to promote health and wellness
and to prevent dysfunction.
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6. ASPECTS OF PHYSICAL FUNCTION:
KEY TERMS
1. Balance
2. Cardiopulmonary fitness
3. Coordination
4. Flexibility
5. Mobility
6. Muscle performance
7. Neuromuscular control
8. Postural control, postural stability, and equilibrium
9. Stability
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7. ASPECTS OF PHYSICAL FUNCTION:
DEFINITION OF KEY TERMS
1.Balance
 The ability to move the body in equilibrium with
gravity via interaction of the sensory and motor
systems.
2. Cardiopulmonary fitness
 The ability to perform low intensity, repetitive,
total body movements (walking, jogging, cycling,
swimming) over an extended period of time.
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8. 3.Coordination
 The correct timing (conscious or automatic Level) and
sequencing of muscle firing combined with the
appropriate intensity of muscular contraction leading
to the effective initiation, guiding, and grading of
movement.
4.Flexibility
 The ability to move freely, without restriction.
5. Mobility
 The ability of structures or segments of the body to
move or be moved in order to allow the occurrence of
range of motion.
 It can be AROM or PROM.
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9. 6. Muscle performance
 The capacity of muscle to produce tension and do physical work.
 Muscle performance encompasses strength, power, and muscular
endurance.
7. Neuromuscular control
 Interaction of the sensory and motor systems.
8. Postural control, postural stability, and equilibrium
 Used interchangeably with static or dynamic balance.
9. Stability
 The ability of the neuromuscular system to hold a proximal or distal
body segment in a stationary position or to control a stable base
during superimposed movement.
 Joint stability: is the maintenance of proper alignment of bony
partners of a joint by means of passive and dynamic components.
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10. TYPES OF THERAPEUTIC EXERCISE
INTERVENTION
 Aerobic conditioning and reconditioning
 Muscle performance exercises: strength, power, and endurance training
 Stretching techniques including muscle-lengthening procedures and joint mobilization
techniques
 Neuromuscular control, inhibition, and facilitation techniques and posture awareness
training
 Postural control, body mechanics, and stabilization exercises
 Balance exercises and agility training
 Relaxation exercises
 Breathing exercises and ventilatory muscle training
 Task-specific functional training
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11. EXERCISE SAFETY
 Patient’s safety
 Therapist safety
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12. REFERENCE
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13. ASSIGNMENT
Q: DEFINITION OF FOLLOWING:
 Health status
 Fitness
 Sense of well-being
 Intensity
 Grading of movement
 Muscular Strength
 Muscular Power
 Muscular endurance
 Static balance
 Dynamic balance
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