Home Exercises

Patients that come to Sports Care for physical therapy are assigned home exercises to do themselves at home on days that they do not come to the clinic for therapy. These exercises are crucial to a patients recovery. If a patient does not complete their home exercises, there is a noticeable difference in their recovery time. For instance, a patient who had a knee replacement was using the usual first step at using a walker post operation. She had been using the walker for a longer period of time than normal patients would. The next step from a walker is using a cane to walk with, but the patient was not able to use it. This was because the patient failed to complete her own duty in her recovery, which was doing the home exercises. After the PT was able to realize that this was the issue, the patient began to complete her exercises, and soon after upgraded from walker to cane. The patient must work just as hard at home on their own just as they do at therapy in order to further their recovery process. It is definitely and extremely important aspect when attending physical therapy.