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The Health Benefits of
Physical Rehabilitation and Exercise
There are virtually hundreds of benefits of
physical rehabilitation and exercise. Here are just a few.
- restores health and
functional abilities
- maintain muscle strength and endurance
- restore and increase joint range of motion
- increases coordination
- decrease pain
- decrease muscle spasm and plasticity
- decrease swelling and inflammation of joints
- promotes healing of soft tissue lesions
- prevents contracture and deformity of limbs
- alleviate walking problems
- improves your chances of living longer
- improves quality of life
- reduces the risk of heart disease
- helps lower high blood pressure (hypertension) and high cholesterol
- helps protect you from developing certain cancers
- helps prevent or control type 2 diabetes (adult-onset diabetes)
- reduces the risk of arthritis and alleviates associated symptoms
- helps prevent osteoporosis (gradual loss of bone mass/strength)
- improves mobility and strength in later life
- alleviates symptoms of depression and anxiety
- benefits weight reduction and weight management
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