As we age, we may find that our ability to 'bounce back' following an injury, or a physical or psychological trauma, may not be as easy as it perhaps once was in our younger years. 

Other than the obvious hormonal and other physical influences, there can also be a range of other reasons why our bodies may take longer to recover, such as previous injury, existing medical conditions, joint or spinal degeneration, emotional/psychological influences or general decrease in muscle conditioning.

Sometimes when we experience a physically or psychologically traumatic event, even though keeping active is often advised, it can often affect our ability to want to maintain our levels of physical activity through fear of re-injury, lack of confidence in our ability to maintain balance or stability, our limitations that we place upon ourselves, or even the motivation if emotionally upset.

Exercise doesn't have to be strenuous. In order to maintain bone health, maintain muscle, improve strength, feel & have better cardiovascular fitness, improve spinal and joint movement, or reduce pain. You don't necessarily need to join a gym or have a personal trainer - we can do all of that for you here under the guidance of a fully qualified allied health practitioner with a special interest in exercise rehabilitation.

At Healthy Living Osteopathy, we embrace life! We want our seniors and elderly patients to enjoy their ageing journey and where applicable, we will  work with you to gently help improve your strength, to improve your co-ordination, to improve your balance and feel more stable. We aim to increase your confidence and our goal is to transform any fear-avoidance behaviours, into a desire to maintain a strong and active life.
 

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How are the sessions run?

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We first assess your level of fitness, what you 'can/cannot' do with confidence, identify any limitations to exercise (previous or current injury), what form of exercise you enjoy/don't enjoy, and your goals. The first session needs to be booked as a Long Initial Consultation so we can obtain all the information required to work 'with' you to generate the most suitable, safe and effective program. 

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Our exercise programs are tailored so that we ensure all exercises are executed correctly and that you feel comfortable and competent to continue to do the exercises at home. Our approach is not to require you to see us each week for rehabilitation, but instead after obtaining all information, we tailor a program, we demonstrate the exercises in our rehabilitation area of the clinic, we then ask you to show us the exercises being prescribed and once we both feel confident all exercises can be done correctly, you're happy with the exercises and feel confident to do these at home and no exercises cause aggravation, we write up a summary of your program for you to do each day at home. We repeat the program a few times in the clinic to ensure that you feel 100% happy with the exercises before we conclude the session.

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We then set a time for the next session (usually a few weeks later) where we ask you to show us your exercise program, we check that the exercise technique is correct, we ask about your progress, and often add in or remove some exercises based on your preference (and ours) to get you closer to your 'goal'.  We usually continue on this plan every 4 weeks or so to check on the program, how it is going, how you are feeling, identify any issues and then also change various elements to keep the body in a continued positive path to improve musculoskeletal health.

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