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Strength / Conditioning / Rehabilitation

Exercise and Rehabilitation play an integral part in everyone's recovery from pain or injury. The primary goals are to help you recover faster, prevent re-injury and develop resilience. We want to get you back in the game!

Rehabilitation exercise aims to bring back full function following injury through restoring muscle strength, endurance, power, and improving flexibility/range of motion. Our trainers achieve these results by carefully selecting and planning various exercises and drills for each client in consultation with your practitioners. Rehabilitation is as important as treatment following any injury but is often forgotten. It is crucial to understand that injuries will improve and heal more successfully if an exercise plan is followed. However, every person responds differently and healing times will vary.
The key point to remember is that prevention is better than cure and a good, well formulated rehabilitation plan will help keep injuries at bay.

How does exercise rehabilitation work?

Rehabilitation exercises should begin as soon as possible after the acute phase which is typically around 72 hours after an injury. Exercises should be pain free with a few rare exceptions. There are three different stages within rehabilitation that are important to follow if returning to pain-free daily life and/or sporting activities.

  1. Early stage rehabilitation: Gentle exercise allowing for the damaged tissue to heal.
  2. Mid stage rehabilitation: Progressive loading to the muscles, tendons, bones or ligaments. This develops tensile strength producing a healed tissue that will be able to withstand the stresses and strains of everyday life and exercise.
  3. Late stage rehabilitation: Functional exercises and drills to improve your strength, flexibility and stamina, and to stress the new tissues to ensure the body is ready for pain-free daily movement and exercise.

What are the benefits of exercise rehabilitation?

  • Faster recovery
  • Reduced pain
  • Restored muscle strength, endurance and power
  • Improved flexibility
  • Enhanced proprioception (an essential part of our bodies' ability to move) and improved balance
  • Injury prevention
  • Creating resilience and reducing chances of re-injury/re-aggravation

What conditions would benefit from exercise rehabilitation?

Chronic injuries, such as long term back pain, knee pain and joint instability/hypermobility injuries not responding to manual treatment, this may be due to weakness in muscles or poor posture.

Exercise rehabilitation can also help to:

  • Support specific sporting goals
  • Improve strength and fitness
  • Improve posture and flexibility
  • Help improve mood and mental health

What does The Parker Clinic provide to clinic clients?

  • Strengthening & Conditioning
  • Rehabilitation
  • Personal & Group Training
  • Gym Program Design & Prescription
  • Weight(loss) & Body Composition Management
  • Fitness Assessment
  • Flexibility/Range of Motion Recovery
  • Home Based Fitness Programs
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