Therapeutic Exercise Foundations Flashcards
Define Therapeutic Exercise according the APTA guide.
Therapeutic exercise is the systematic performance or execution of planned physical movements, postures, or activities intended to enable the patient/client to 1. re-mediate (fix) or prevent impairments, 2. enhance function, 3. reduce risk, 4. optimize overall health, and 5. enhance fitness and well-being.
What are the 6 steps of the Patient/Client model?
Examination Evaluation Diagnosis Prognosis INTERVENTION Outcomes
Therapeutic exercise falls under what category of interventions?
Procedural interventions
What are the 9 (8) types of procedural interventions that are commonly selected by physical therapists are the core of most plans of care?
Aerobic capacity/Endurance training Balance, Coordination, and Agility training Body mechanics and Postural Stabilization Flexibility exercises Gait and Locomotion Training Neuromotor development training Relaxation Strength, Power, and Endurance training
What are clinical considerations regarding the examination that may direct how we choose ther-ex or what type of ther-ex we use with the patient? 6
Pathology Impairments Functional Limitations Disability Risk Reduction Health, Wellness, and Fitness needs
What impairments do PTs generally address?
Those that affect the musculoskeletal, neuromuscular, cardiovascular/pulmonary, or integumentary systems. (board exams are broken down into these sections too)
What pathology becomes a functional limitation?
Occurs at the level of the whole person (a pathology that occurs at the shoulder, but doesn’t limit everything in a day is not whole person)
A result of impairments
Characterized by reduced ability of a person to perform actions or components of motor skills in an efficient or typically expected manner. (ie. decreased ROM in should makes combing hair impossible)
What is an activity limitation or functional limitation?
a person has difficulty executing or is unable to perform talks or ADL
What is the definition of a disability?
Inability to perform or participate in activities or tasks related to one’s self, the home, work, recreation, or the community in a manner or to the extent that the individual or community as a whole PERCEIVE AS NORMAL.–situational and cultural.
Define Balance
Ability to align body segments against gravity to maintain or move the body (center of mass) within the available base of support without falling: the ability to move the body in equilibrium with gravity through interaction of the sensory and motor systems.
Can you keep yourself upright, aligned without falling over?
Define Cardiopulmonary fitness
Ability to perform low-intensity, repetitive, total body movements over an extended period of time (walking, joggin, cycling, swimming.)
Define Coordination
How well one performs movements they want to perform.
Correct timing and sequencing of muscle firing combined with the appropriate intensity of muscular contraction leading to the effective initiation, guiding, and grading of movement.
Define Flexibility
Define Mobility
Ability to move freely, without restriction; used interchangeable with mobility.
Ability of structures or segments of the body to move or be moved in order to allow the occurrence of ROM for functional activities.
Define Muscle Performance
Capacity of muscles to produce tension and do physical work; encompasses strength, power, and muscular endurance.
Define Neuromuscular Control
Interaction of the sensory and motor systems that enables synergists, agonists, and antagonists, as well as stabilizers and neutralizers to anticipate or respond to proprioceptive and kinesthetic information and subsequently, to work in correct sequence to create coordinated movement.
Can we use our motor and nervous system to perform activities based on anticipated needs or activities with appropriate feedback.
