Eyal Lederman's Functional Exercise Prescription presents a revolutionary approach to exercise prescription that utilizes individuals' movement repertoires to support rehabilitation in musculoskeletal and pain conditions. It demonstrates how daily activities can be amplified to provide the necessary movement challenges, making exercise unnecessary. The book explains how to identify individuals' recovery processes and select appropriate activities, as well as how to modify them to support recovery. It offers practical tools for constructing tailor-made plans to expedite and optimize recovery.

Format: Paperback / softback
Length: 264 pages
Publication date: 29 March 2022
Publisher: Jessica Kingsley Publishers

Functional Exercise Prescription: A Revolutionary Approach to Exercise Prescription

In Functional Exercise Prescription, Eyal Lederman presents a groundbreaking new approach to exercise prescription that utilizes an individual's own movement repertoire. The book demonstrates how daily activities, often referred to as the "life gym," can be amplified to provide the necessary movement challenges to support movement rehabilitation in various musculoskeletal and pain conditions. This means that all activities can become remedial without the need to prescribe unfamiliar exercises, effectively addressing the question of how to exercise without exercise or how to rehabilitate without exercise.

People recover from most musculoskeletal and pain conditions through three key processes: repair, adaptation, and alleviation of symptoms. The author explains how to identify the individual's recovery process and how to select the appropriate daily or sporting activities, as well as how they can be modified to support recovery. Functional Exercise Prescription is a significant departure from traditional strength and conditioning models that have been used for rehabilitation. The book explores the limitations of these models and explains how they can be replaced by functional daily activities, known as "functioncise." It provides practitioners with practical tools to construct a tailor-made plan for each individual to help expedite and optimize their recovery.

Most rehabilitation can be constructed from a small familiar set of daily or sports activities. All human physical activity is exercise. Life is your gym.

Weight: 638g
Dimension: 188 x 247 x 16 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781912085484