Exercise Therapy for Physical Therapist

Abstract

This chapter describes exercise therapy in terms of definition, objectives, concept, tech- niques, mechanisms, and equipment. Mechanisms explaining the effect of exercise train- ing on treatments for other diseases are included. In addition, new biomarkers capable of evaluating exercise performance capacity and progress in training and early detection of overtraining are provided. Very promising are mainly small non‐coding microRNAs (miRNAs). Important background knowledge for exercise therapy is also provided. The knowledge covers the exercise for healthy and unhealthy people. The former includes sedentary and sport player. The latter includes patients with various diseases, for exam- ple, metabolic diseases, cardiovascular disease, orthopedics, etc. Importantly, all the knowledge was presented in latest information.