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How to do strengthening exercises at home without breaking the bank? The recovery of many conditions treated in physiotherapy requires muscle strengthening through weightlifting exercises at home. The principle is simple: To improve the strength of our muscles, we must accustom them to lifting / pushing / pulling a certain load and then gradually increase this load as they get used to it. For example, if our life situation requires that our arm be able to lift 20 lbs, but at
What exercise to do after an injury or a surgery? Here is a typical example of an exercise progression for the rehabilitation of any movement following an injury or a surgery. Here, as shown in the orange box, we have chosen the rehabilitation of the ankle dorsiflexion movement, which consists of pointing the foot towards oneself (green arrow). In our progression, there are four different ways to work on the same movement. In ascending order of level of difficulty, we have 1)
