Medical strength training: an essential component of medical training therapy
Medical strength training refers to targeted physical training that is supervised by medical professionals such as doctors or physiotherapists and sports therapists to treat pain, functional disorders or impairments to the musculoskeletal system caused by injuries, illnesses or operations.
The aim of medical strength training:
After orthopaedic-traumatological injuries, operations, pain-related resting posture, age-related lack of exercise, pronounced neuromuscular deficits occur within a short period of time. Medical strength training with the aim of improving or maintaining strength is therefore an essential part of rehabilitation and prevention.
The focus of strength training is not on achieving maximum strength, but on the strength skills required to carry out everyday and sporting activities. This means that at the beginning of strength training, the focus is on strength endurance training. Hypertrophy training, which follows later, refers to strength training with the aim of promoting muscle growth (hypertrophy). Other forms of strength training are maximum strength, which is used more in the athletic area, and training familiarization for those inexperienced in training.
The principles of strength training only differentiate between the two areas of athletics and rehabilitation in terms of the level of performance from which the person training is "picked up".
