THERAPEUTIC EXERCISE PRESCRIPTION PRINCIPLES

Abstract

Pain is a leading contributor to disability around the world. It impacts mobility, emotional health, work performance, and the overall quality of life. The concept of therapeutic exercise is one of the main treatments in physiotherapy to prevent, treat, and restore damage to movement function. Proper exercise prescriptions should be done based on a certain approach involving several important principles of therapeutic prescriptions and with the greatest effect for the client. The present paper deals with the definition of therapeutic exercise and mentions the main principles of the exercise prescription. The main principles are individualization, specificity principle, progressive overload, FITT (Frequency Intensity Time Type), variation principle, reversibility, and patient education and compliance. The importance of adapting exercise programs according to the needs of a patient to achieve better recover results is described in the chapter. The chapter describes the role of physiotherapists in developing safe, progressive, and patient-centred exercise programs.