Home Care
Home care is advice and suggestions involving stretches, exercises and hydrotherapy to help maintain progress of your treatments. Most therapist will recommend a home care routine to help, improve and maintain your health concerns.
Stretching tips
Most stretches which therapists will recommend can be held for 30-60 at a time. It is recommended to try to stretch daily. Application of a heat pad or other types of heat hydrotherapy application can help increase and deepen your stretches.
Strengthening tips
Your therapist will evaluate your strength and provide suggestions which would be appropriate for your fitness level. Isometric exercises are a great type of strengthening exercises that can benefit a wide range of fitness levels. Isometric muscle contractions use proprioception muscles that help stabilize joints, quicken muscle firing reaction time and challenge muscles in a way we often don’t use them in everyday actives. Speak to your therapist about different options for your at home fitness routine.
Benefits of Home Care
- Increases your flexibility
- Increases your range of motion
- Improves your performance in physical activities
- Increases blood flow to your muscles
- Improves your posture
- Helps to heal and prevent back pain
- Is great for stress relief
- Can calm your mind