Exercise Rehabilitation

If injury, surgery, or chronic disease has impacted your mobility, exercise rehabilitation can help you regain strength, balance, and physical abilities.

Here at Bounty Physio, our physiotherapists design personalised exercise programs using best practice principles of therapeutic exercise.

Exercise acts as “medicine” by stimulating healing and recovery. Prescribed exercise programs can restore joint mobility, build muscle strength, retrain motor control, improve cardiovascular fitness, and enhance overall function.

From recovery after orthopaedic surgery to managing long-term conditions, our experienced therapists develop exercise rehab plans tailored to your unique needs, goals, and current abilities. We help you progress safely to maximise functional improvements.

Specific exercises produce numerous beneficial effects:

• Strengthens weakened muscles to better support joints.
• Maintains/regains joint range of motion.
• Re-educates muscles for coordinated movements.
• Improves balance and proprioception.
• Increases blood flow for tissue healing.
• Manages weight to reduce joint loads.
• Enhances heart and lung fitness.
• Promotes hormone release for health benefits.
• Provides a long-term self-management strategy.

Your program focuses on restoring abilities affected by your condition for improved function, independence and quality of life.

Therapeutic exercise benefits many orthopaedic, neurological, and chronic health conditions including:

• Osteoarthritis
• Rheumatoid arthritis
• Osteoporosis
• Spinal conditions
• Joint replacement
• Fractures
• Tendonitis
• Back/neck pain
• Multiple sclerosis
• Parkinson’s disease
• Stroke
• Heart disease
• Lung disease
• Obesity
• Diabetes
• Cancer recovery
• General weakness
• Poor balance
• And more

There are few conditions that cannot benefit from properly designed exercise programs.

Exercise therapy offers many advantages:

• Improves function and independence
• Speeds recovery after injury or surgery
• Provides natural pain relief
• Prevents future injury and degeneration
• Better long-term management of chronic diseases
• Optimises overall health and fitness
• Teaches self-management strategies
• Social benefits of group exercise
• Enhances mental health and mood
• Can reduce healthcare utilisation

Exercise empowers patients to take control of healing and health outcomes.

Our therapists perform in-depth assessments to identify your current ability levels, health risks, and goals. We then create customised exercise programs that may include:

• Range of motion exercises
• Muscle strengthening
• Balance and coordination drills
• Cardiovascular/endurance training
• Functional practice (e.g. sit-to-stand)
• Motor control and posture exercises
• Neuromuscular re-education
• Aquatic therapy
• Electrotherapy to facilitate muscle activity
• And more!

Sessions involve performing your prescribed exercises under our guidance and progressing as your capabilities improve. We ensure you can continue your customised program independently at home or in community programs.

The exercise rehabilitation duration depends on your needs – ranging from 6 visits for straightforward post-operative programs to months of therapy for complex neurological conditions.

Your physiotherapist will tailor the frequency and number of visits to your particular goals. Consistency with your home program maximises outcomes between sessions.

Our physiotherapists have advanced certification in therapeutic exercise prescription and take an evidence-based approach. Benefits of working with us include:

• Experience – We’ve helped clients ranging from athletes to ageing adults improve with exercise.
• Holistic practice – Exercise is part of comprehensive plans including hands-on therapy.
• Latest techniques – We integrate new research on optimal exercise parameters.
• Graded progression – We advance your program gradually based on your response.
• Scope of practice – We address all aspects, from strength to endurance to balance.
• Education-based – We ensure you understand your program for self-management.
• Client-centred care – Your preferences shape how we implement exercise.
• Accessibility – We offer group classes alongside 1:1 therapy for options.

If injury, illness, or inactivity has limited your strength and mobility, properly dosed exercise may help you achieve your health and function goals.

Contact us today to get started with a personalised exercise rehabilitation and physiotherapy plan!