RehabWorks - Injury Specific Exercises

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The most common injury to both amateur and professional golfers involves the lower back/lumbosacral spine. Approximately 65-80% of golfers have a disabling back injury at one time or another.

Injury Specific Exercises

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Exercise rehabilitation is one of the most important therapeutic tools available to the certified athletic trainer. Exercise, properly used and combined with other therapeutic modalities, can help the patient safely return to work, sport competition or activities of daily living (ADL's). Rehabilitation refers to the restoration of the patient to a pre- injury level of physical and psychological competitive fitness. Preventing deconditioning involves keeping the body physically fit while the injury heals. In establishing a conditioning program, emphesis will be placed on maintaining strength, flexibility, endurance and coordination of the total body. Restoring the injured part is of primary importance; a rehabilitation program must be started as soon as possible. An injured part, particularly a joint muscle, must be prevented from developing degenerative changes or disuse atrophy, respectively. Excessive immobilization will result in muscle atrophy, contractures, inflexibility, and delays in healing because of circulatory impairment.

At RehabWorks we have designed several injury specific exercise protocols. After a complete evaluation of the injury, the proper exercise protocol will be introduced. Our goals in treating an injury are:

Decrease pain and inflammation,
Increase range of motion (ROM),
Increase muscular strength and endurance.

Muscular strength is one of the most essential factors in restoring the function of a body part to pre-injury status. Most of the exercises in our protocols are simple exercises that use light dumbbells, therabands, and your own body weight as a means of resistance. The RehabWorks staff will give you a handout with the exercises specific to your injury that you can work on during your own time in addition to your visits in our office.

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