Kinesiotherapy

Chapter 4

Kinesiotherapy

5 topics

  1. 19Kinesiotherapy: physiological foundations and principles. Effects of therapeutic exercise on major organ systems. Principles of exercise prescription and dosageWhy movement is a medicine. This page explains what happens to the body when it stops moving (hypokinesia), what regular exercise does to muscle, heart, lungs, bone, metabolism and brain, and the rules for prescribing exercise like a drug, with a type, an intensity, a duration, a frequency and a plan for raising the dose.
  2. 20Active and active-assisted kinesiotherapy. Therapeutic exercises for mobility, muscle strength, and endurance. Principles of progression and dosageExercise the patient does with their own muscles, with help when they are too weak (active-assisted) and against resistance when they are strong enough. This page covers how to pick the right level from the muscle test, the methods (assisted, suspension, water, free and resisted exercise), the exercises for mobility, strength and endurance, and how each is dosed and stepped up.
  3. 21Therapeutic exercises for balance, coordination, and functional mobility. Basic principles, methods, and clinical applicationsBalance means keeping the body's weight over its feet, coordination means making the muscles act in the right order and amount, and functional mobility is using both to get up, walk and turn in real life. This page explains how each works, how they are tested, and how exercises, gait training, walking aids and terrain walking train them, with dosage, uses and safety.
  4. 22Passive kinesiotherapy. Passive exercises, positioning, mobilization, and stretching. Indications, contraindications, and application techniquesIn passive kinesiotherapy something other than the patient's own muscles moves the body, a therapist's hands, a machine, gravity, or the patient's other limb. This page covers passive exercises, positioning, mobilization and stretching, with the other passive methods of the professor's school (mechanotherapy, traction and massage), how each is done, and when it helps or harms.
  5. 23Post-isometric relaxation and fundamentals of manual therapy. Physiological principles, basic techniques, indications, contraindications, and safety considerationsManual therapy treats joints and soft tissues with the therapist's hands, and post-isometric relaxation is its gentlest muscle technique, a short soft contraction followed by letting go, which lets a tight muscle lengthen. This page covers the ideas behind them (joint play, barriers, functional blockage), the basic techniques and their grades, how post-isometric relaxation is done and dosed, and the indications, contraindications and safety rules.