Hello, this is Ryan, a physical therapist. We want to have a little short discussion on how to stick to an exercise program provided by your Physical therapist. Home exercises that we might have prescribed to seniors. We’d like to share some tips on. What I like to do is, make my home exercise as kind of a commercial exercise, I call them.

And the reason why I label it that is because a lot of times when we’re injured and can’t move around much, we wanna be entertained. We watch television and, , we, , have commercial. It’s just kind of part of life now. And so I’d like to get the commercials to kind of trigger, , a cue, a reminder to say, oh, I’d rather do these exercise than watch this commercial again.

And, , whether that be just getting up and walking or do something simple for a couple of minutes, we’re just coming up with something, Hey, something is better than nothing. And kind of get the ball rolling from there. And I know we’ve got some other great ideas that can be, , brought forth.

This is Raj Physical Therapist, I always tell my patients, associate exercise, home exercise program provided by your physical therapist with medication.

Like whenever you take medication, you take, pick couple of exercise, finish the full set, 12, 15, 30, whatever the prescription is. And, , it’s like, just like a prescription. So, , a doctor, medical doctor gives you a medication as a prescription and a physical therapist gives you, , exercise as prescription to improve your function.

And you associate those two medication and exercise that will help you, , stick to the exercise program that your therapist provided. Awesome, awesome.

This is Swati physical therapist, thanks Ryan and , Raj for those wonderful tips. So my tip for today is I say, and I always talk to my patients about, , the traffic light exercises.

I know it sounds funny, but whenever we stop, you know, at the traffic, , light, like at the red light or at the stop sign, we have like few minutes, right? So of course we are still focusing on the, on the road and, you know, following the traffic rules. But one thing that we are doing is, , you know, doing those simple chin tucks where you have your, , chin tucked bag, so you’re focusing on your posture and, you know, getting those, , chin tucks, , done.

Even if it’s like five reps, it’s better than doing none. So I would encourage you guys to start doing something like that to work on your posture and, , get healthy. Great. Thank you. And just to kind of thank you, pop it up with what everybody has shared here. I’m taking it. Keep it short. Keep it simple.

Don’t make it harder than it need to be. And, , you know, with medications being prescribed, hey, if you did some of the exercises with the medication, your body is gonna take better advantage of the medications. It’ll be much more effective cuz now you got the blood flow going and the, the medications and whatnot, it’s gonna have much more of a better effect on you.

Thank you. Thank you. Thank you.