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Benefits of Exercise For Specific Medical Conditions

Regular physical activity has long been recognised as an important component of a healthy lifestyle. The human body thrives on movement as it stimulates blood flow and tissue growth in muscle and bone. It also counteracts fatigue of nervous tension and sedentary activity. The importance of physical activity in reducing mortality and morbidity from a variety of disease processes is now firmly established in the scientific literature.

Rehabilitation can be provided for a vast array of injuries and also provide ongoing injury management. Combining specific exercises with stretching, Muscle Balance techniques and Trigger Point Therapy will assist a faster recovery.

When people have suffered an injury or recently had surgery, sports injury rehab is vital to get your strength back in the affected areas. Ironically, where people want to give up, in many cases this is exactly the time they most need to be exercising. What holds most people back is not knowing how sports rehab on an injury can be achieved without causing further damage.

Postural Correction

A perfect and straight spine is kept in its correct anatomical position by the muscles surrounding it. If any of these muscles are too weak or too strong your spinal column will be pulled out of alignment causing problems such as:

**Muscular strain and muscle aches i.e. neck and lower back pain

**Rounded shoulders

**Pot belly

**Forward head posture

**Digestive problems

**Headaches

We all have a natural Kyphosis, an outward curvature of the thoracic spine, but for many, this has become exaggerated as a result of prolonged sitting such as when using a computer or when driving. The resulting postural Kyphosis is sometimes termed “round shoulders”, and leads to complaints such as back ache, neck pain and even referred pain in the shoulder and upper limbs. Lordosis on the other hand causes an over exaggerated inward curvature of the lumbar spine, being overweight is a common cause as having a large belly leads to imbalance. To compensate for this – and to prevent toppling forwards – a person will lean backwards. This can lead to lower back problems.

Using an understanding of the natural balance of the muscle and skeletal system; with correct strengthening of weak muscles and stretching of tight muscles; it is possible to significantly improve a wide range of postural problems such as Kyphosis (hunch back), Lordosis (swayback), Scoliosis (sideways curvature of the spine) and many more problems.

Medical Conditions And Exercise

Below are just a few medical conditions that can be helped with exercise:

Osteoporosis – Exercise can prevent and reverse bone loss thereby protecting against fractures and general bone degeneration.

Diabetes – Exercise can improve blood glucose control and thereby prevent or delay some of the serious vascular complications of diabetes. In Type 1, exercise can also reduce the need for insulin.

Coronary Heart Disease – Exercise helps reverse the established disease and helps control the risk factors for heart disease i.e. high blood pressure, high cholesterol and obesity.

Stroke – Exercise helps prevent strokes and can help restore function after a stroke.

High Blood Pressure – Exercise serves as a non-drug therapy for treating mild to moderate high blood pressure and it helps patients who are on drug therapy for severe high blood pressure.

Arthritis – Exercise improves endurance, strengthens muscles and increases flexibility and joint range of movement.

Asthma/Bronchitis – Exercise provides both physical and mental benefits to both types of sufferers through improvements in respiratory function.

Stress/Depression – It is worth noting that stress is now reaching epidemic proportions in this country. Exercise can reduce depression and anxiety, increases feelings of well-being, improves ability to handle stress and improves self image.

Obesity – Exercise aids people improving or optimizing fat levels.

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