Stepped Care Model to Exercises

You may have heard of the term stepped care model. This often means that you are being treated in a conservative manner prior to doing anything more dramatic. With muscles, we use a stepped care exercise model. You don’t proceed to the next step without fulfilling the previous one. Our exercises are based on the following steps:

Relaxation –> Limbering –> Stretching –> Strengthening

First step is to relax the muscles to relieve tension caused by stress. This may sound easy, but without proper relaxation of the muscles, the muscles will not easily move.

Limbering is moving within your range of comfort, and stretching follows with gentle movement beyond the comfort range.

Strengthening is last because if you strengthen a tight muscle, you are only going to be making it tighter, which might make you feel worse.