What is rehabilitation therapy?
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Rehabilitation is defined as "to restore to good condition, operation or capacity" or "to restore to useful life, as through therapy and education." Rehabilitation refers to specialized healthcare dedicated to improving, maintaining, or restoring physical strength, cognition, and mobility. It helps to gain greater independence after illness, injury, or surgery.
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What are the various types of rehabilitation therapies?
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Cognitive Behavioral Therapy - Helps to recognize and improve negative thought and behavior patterns.
- Recreational Therapy – Improves mental and emotional well-being by focusing on people's interests and strengths to help them reach their goals.
- Occupational Therapy – Teaches how to adapt and perform daily tasks.
- Physical Therapy – Restores functional movement of the body.
- Speech Therapy - Also known as speech pathology, speech therapy assists adults and children with the mechanics of speech. Words are combined with various activities to produce results.
- Respiratory Therapy – Treats breathing disorders such as Asthma and Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease.
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What's the difference between inpatient and outpatient rehabilitation?
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- Inpatient rehabilitation: Physical and therapy services administered during a stay in a hospital.
- Outpatient rehabilitation: Services received away from the hospital, such as physician services and physical, occupational, and speech therapy.
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What does rehabilitation therapy focus on?
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Rehabilitation therapies will focus on four issues:
- Physical therapy - to help you regain strength, fitness, and mobility.
- Occupational therapy - to assist you in your day-to-day activities from those who are experts in orthopedics, sports-specific injuries, surgical and non-surgical conditions;
- Speech and Language Therapy - Improves speaking skills, cognitive understanding, reading, writing, and physical functions such as swallowing
- Pain Therapy - Medications, acupuncture, and mind-body techniques to relieve pain and discomfort.
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Yoga therapy is a highly popular complementary or alternative therapeutic discipline that is said to have tremendous healing powers and has found its way into doctors' treatment plans. Yoga is a centuries-old science that focuses on health and wellness by touching all the areas or levels of a person's being – physical, psychological, and spiritual. It balances the body and mind and helps individuals face all health and mental challenges.
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What does yoga therapy include?
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Yoga therapy is a mix of different types of physical and mental exercises. These include postural and breathing exercises, plus relaxation and meditation. Yoga aims to promote all-round positive health.
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Will doing yoga regularly be enough to keep you fit?
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Yoga asanas are different types of exercises that are said to be very effective for both the mind and the body but to see its true benefits, make sure to eat a well-balanced diet and live a healthy lifestyle.
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How is yoga different from a regular workout?
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While a regular workout exercises the body, yoga involves the mind, the body, and the spirit. After a yoga session, you will feel energized and relaxed, while a workout may leave you tired.
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What types of yoga products are available?
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You will only need a soft yoga mat to practice yoga. This therapy involves exercise without using machines or a particular kind of clothing. You should wear loose and comfortable attire, allowing you to stretch comfortably and sit cross-legged on the floor. Various types of yoga stretch pants and tops are available for comfort and stretch.
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Hatha Yoga aligns your skin, muscles, and bones and is regarded as a stress-reducing form of yoga. It focuses on the free flow of energy, opens the many channels of the body, and creates balance. Hatha yoga includes disciplines, postures, purification procedures, gestures, breathing, and meditation.
Hatha Yoga is believed to induce sound sleep, increase energy levels and muscle tone, improve circulation, relieve muscle aches and pain, and promote overall good health.
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What does the word "pranayama" mean?
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Pranayama is the breathing exercise practiced in yoga. "Prana" means the eternal life force or vital energy, the breath, while "ayama" means to extend or regulate. Pranayama is controlling your life force through regulated breathing. In yoga, it is believed that regulating your breath consciously can benefit your physical and mental health.
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Asana refers to the different yoga poses.
The different types of asanas include honorable pose, crescent moon, crescent lunge, half moon, bow posture up to the ear, downward facing dog, downward facing tree, child's pose, fetus pose, boat pose, butterfly pose, cat's pose, headstand, sukhasana, corpse pose and many more.
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Pilates is a fitness regime developed in the early 20th century by a German man named Joseph Pilates. This exercise method uses an integrative approach to developing flexibility and awareness of the body by focusing on core strength. It works on six principles of centering, control, flow, breath, precision, and concentration. Pilates exercises focus on making each move with precision instead of repetition.
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Which is better – Pilates or yoga?
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This has been the subject of many a debate! Many believe that yoga is more effective since it works on both the body and the mind. Others argue that Pilates helps build strength which will improve yoga performance. Both these forms of exercise are beneficial in their own ways, promote good health, and overlap in many ways.
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