What is exercise therapy?

  Exercise therapy, also known as medical sports, or physical therapy (PT) for short: is a method of using the body’s muscle and joint movements to prevent and treat disease and to promote the recovery and development of physical and mental functions. Mainly using traditional Chinese medical methods, it can be carried out scientifically, purposefully and gradually with the help of machinery, passive or active exercise to promote the recovery of impaired functions as a rehabilitation treatment method.  Exercise therapy is a training method that uses equipment, bare hands or the patient’s own strength to enable the patient to obtain whole-body or local motor function and sensory function recovery through certain exercise methods (active or passive exercise, etc.). The most common problem to be solved by rehabilitation medicine is motor dysfunction, therefore, exercise therapy has become the core treatment tool of rehabilitation therapy, which is one of the two major components of physical therapy (PT) (the other component is physical factor therapy).  Exercise therapy mainly adopts the mechanical physical factor of “movement” to treat patients, focusing on the training of movement, sensation, balance and other functions of trunk and limbs, including: joint function training, muscle strength training, aerobic training, balance training, facilitation training, mobility training, and walking training.  - Exercise therapy is one of the most important tools to promote the rehabilitation of pediatric cerebral palsy.  - The purpose of exercise therapy: 1. To control the abnormal tension of muscles and to relieve or enhance their tension.  2. To stretch shortened muscles and tendons, expand the range of motion of joints, enhance muscle strength and endurance of activities, improve abnormal posture and movement patterns, and promote the development of normal posture and movement patterns.  3.Improve balance and coordination of movement.  4.To conduct re-education training of motor function and improve neuromuscular function.  5.Improve the function of heart, lung, liver and other organs through training stimulation.  6.Enhance physical strength and improve whole body dysfunction through exercise training.  Precautions: 1, 30 minutes before training to prepare adequately, do not eat too much. Do not eat too much during the training, so as not to cause choking, coughing or aspiration, which may lead to life threatening; 2.