What is Kinesitherapy?
Kinesitherapy means therapy of movement (from Greek, Kinesis = moving). Kinesitherapy for the treatment of back pain it is also called “postural-antalgic exercises” and it is based on a set of postures, soft movements and strengthening of weak muscles. It aims at restoring a good neuromuscular balance and above all it is aimed at reducing painful symptoms.
The kinesitheraphy protocol includes:
- Respiration exercises for diaphragm re-education;
- Muscles elongation exercises for lower limbs, spine, and muscles of the upper limbs;
- Exercises for the elongation of the spine by means of various postures (fundamentally important in order to reduce inter-disc pressure);
- Exercises for the strengthening of abdominal and dorsolumbar muscles;
- Proprioceptive exercises which are useful to “re-programme” the correct neuro-muscle balance of the spine;
- Patient’s education to the correct postures to be kept during the patient’s daily activities.
Who is kinesitherapy recommended to?
it is recommended to all the people who suffer from lumbalgia and lumbocruralgia from adolescence to elderly age.
How long does a kinesitherapy treatment last?
On average good result can be reached if the treatment lasts at least three months with two session a week for around one hour each, together with 3-4 exercises that the patient will have to do home for not more than 10 minutes a day.
What are the advantage and future perspectives for kinesitherapy?
Kinesitherapy is an active treatment which gives the patient the opportunity to self-treatment, that is to say to do the exercises at home once the treatment has finished.
On this subject, after 15 years of study has been realised the “protocollofrancesconi” a kinesitherapy programme, which has given the best results.
Damiano Francesconi
