Unlike passive exercises, active rehabilitation exercises involve your physical effort exerted into muscular activity.
Active rehabilitation exercises include an active range of motion, like stretching, hand flexion, and extension, or general stroke rehabilitation exercises where you move your hand muscles through therapeutic movements. Shortly put, When you’re doing the exercises yourself, it’s an active exercise.
Limb impairment occurs after neurological injury because the brain cannot send the correct signals to the affected muscles. Active rehabilitation exercises stimulate the brain to rewire itself through neuroplasticity, which trains the brain to use healthy neurons to send signals to your muscles.
Neuroplasticity takes place with both passive and active exercise. However, it is more efficient with active exercise. Active rehabilitation exercise also strengthens muscles which are particularly beneficial if muscle atrophy has occurred from minimal daily movements.
Who Needs Active Exercises?
Patients that struggle with hemiparesis, which is the weakness or the inability to move on one side of the body, making it hard to perform everyday activities like eating or dressing, can benefit from active rehabilitation exercise. As long as the patients have minimal control over their muscles they can benefit from active exercises.
If hand mobility is limited, patients can have passive exercises to warm up the muscles and prepare them for active exercises. For patients who have minimal movement ability on their affected side, can simply start with active exercises. However, you need to ask the physical therapist what’s right for you.
How Can the Portable Rehab Gloves: Vrehab-M2
With Active Exercises?
The Portable Rehab Gloves: Vrehab-M2 can detect minimal hand movements and helps the patient to flex and extend their hands. Patients can combine Activities of Daily Life (ADL) training with active rehabilitation exercises.
