Exercise Therapy

Safely return to an active lifestyle after an injury or with a chronic health condition using exercise therapy.

Exercise therapy is a broad term describing the use of exercise as a treatment for a wide range of health conditions. It is simply a physical activity plan prescribed for recovery from any condition designated by a health professional. As human movement experts, kinesiologists are perfectly suited to help their clients become more active or return to activities they love using exercise therapy.

Types of Exercises

Exercise therapy draws on the fundamentals of healthy exercise: movement for the sake of optimizing your body’s function. Agility, balance, range of motion, flexibility, body aesthetics, body composition, strength and aerobics are pillars of physical health.

Range of motion training
Resistive exercise
Balance and agility training
Strength training
Aerobic conditioning

Exercise therapy targets each of these exercise categories with specific movements or activities. The result is unlimited exercises because variations can be designed for any common exercise to perfectly suit your needs. It is up to your exercise therapist or kinesiologist to tailor a program to your needs and goals.

Squats and split squats
Rows
Bird dogs
Rotator cuff stability exercises
Wall angels, open books for shoulder mobility
Hip hinges
Single leg balance, bosu and stability board exercises
Ladder work for agility
Circuit training or cardio intervals for aerobic exercise

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We Help Clients Recover From

An overwhelming body of evidence suggests that exercise can improve body weight (up or down), combat health conditions and diseases such as type 2 diabetes and cancer, improve mood and energy levels, promote quality sleep and generally improve social interactions and quality of life.

Some conditions that we work with clients to improve are:

Soft tissue injury
Chronic pain
Arthritis
Hernia (all types)
Obesity
Hernia (all types)

There are rare cases when exercise is not recommended, for example when a client has an unstable or acute cardiac condition, or unhealed fractures. To make sure you're ready for exercise, a PARQ+ form is an essential part of getting started. The PARQ+ determines your readiness for exercise therapy, and recommends seeking guidance from a medical doctor when necessary.

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Why Choose Symmetrix For Exercise Therapy

Symmetrix Exercise & Rehab is a private studio specializing in kinesiology and exercise therapy. All of our clients get one-on-one therapy with a professional kinesiologist – a highly personalised experience compared to the gym, but with space and equipment necessary to really get moving. All of our clients receive professional exercise therapy uniquely tailored to their health challenges. Clients benefit from getting back to the activities that they love as quickly as possible.

Working with a kinesiologist means gaining access to a professional with deep experience providing exercise plans. In addition, thanks to our COVID “pivot”, we now have expertise with virtual sessions so clients also have the option to do sessions from home, online.

The positive outcomes our exercise therapy clients regularly experience are:

Decrease in pain
Weight loss
Return to sports or recreation activities
Increase in strength, flexibility and cardiovascular fitness
Improved body mechanics and function
Improved outlook, confidence and life satisfaction
Exercise skills

As Symmetrix clients progress through their exercise therapy program they regain control over their activity and physical health. We help develop healthy routines at the gym or at home to improve long term wellbeing for life.

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