Physiotherapy exercises are increasingly used in the treatment of various diseases and injuries, as well as for rehabilitation. The role of these methods has especially increased in the treatment of patients in whom a number of drugs cause allergies. Exercise therapy does not have adverse side effects.

Scientific and technological progress has changed the living conditions of people, but along with the benefits, it has also introduced a limited physical activity negatively affecting a person - hypokinesia. Hypokinesia is accompanied by physical inactivity - a decrease in muscle strength. Restriction of motor activity, increased neuropsychic overstrain caused the spread of bad habits — smoking, alcohol and even drug abuse. These factors increase the likelihood of disease, and they are called risk factors.

The use of exercise therapy counteracts hypokinesia, reduces risk factors, especially for cardiovascular diseases, metabolic disorders. Exercise therapy has a versatile beneficial effect on the body. However, at the same time, poor tolerance and even exacerbation of the process are possible when applying the wrong methods, when prescribing them in such a phase of the disease, when they are contraindicated.

For each form of the disease, it is necessary to apply specific methods of exercise therapy and build them depending on the etiology, understanding the essence of the pathogenesis of the disease, the clinical forms of its course, the functional state of the body, and also taking into account the specifics of physical exercises.

Physiotherapy exercises is an independent scientific discipline. In medicine, this is a treatment method that uses physical culture products for prevention, treatment, rehabilitation and maintenance therapy. Exercise therapy forms a person’s conscious attitude to physical exercises and in this sense has educational value; develops strength, endurance, coordination of movements, instills the skills of hygiene, hardening of the body by natural factors of nature. ET is based on modern scientific data in the field of medicine, biology, physical education.

The main means of exercise therapy are physical exercises used in accordance with the objectives of treatment, taking into account the etiology, pathogenesis, clinical features, functional state of the body, and the degree of general physical performance.
 

Total labor input: 1 credit (36 hours)

Classroom sessions: 20 hours

Students’ independent work: 16

Semester 6

Final control: test