The most common mistakes when training with rehabilitation and therapy equipment

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Training with rehabilitation and therapy equipment has a very clear goal and that would be to improve the current state of health. But unfortunately, many people use rehabilitation and therapy equipment too carelessly and this can have very fatal consequences. It is very important that you are guided by an experienced trainer or therapist, very precisely and in the best case also monitored.

If you practice these important exercises incorrectly, you risk worsening the condition. Rehab and therapy equipment are there to alleviate the discomfort or make it subside. Therefore, it is quite important that mistakes are avoided at all costs.

Sensibly avoid mistakes when training with rehabilitation and therapy equipment.


Unfortunately, it is always the same, the exercises are performed much too fast and also much too jerky. And exactly this can be very harmful. Often it is the movement and the posture, which are just exercised quite wrong, but also other factors play a very decisive role in rehabilitation and therapy equipment.


The biggest mistakes in rehabilitation and therapy equipment training


  • Too little time
  • No clear goals
  • Too much training
  • No breaks
  • Wrong movements


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The biggest mistakes in training


If you do rehab and therapy equipment training, it is imperative that you always set goals, which must be achieved. If you want to be successful on rehab and therapy equipment, you have to set very clear goals. Only if you have a plan, you will be able to reach the goal and achieve the purpose of training with rehabilitation and therapy equipment. Another fatal mistake can be to approach the rehabilitation and therapy equipment with too much ambition, because this can quickly lead to overstraining, which must be avoided at all costs.


Often one allows oneself between the training units much too little sleep, but this is important, in order to be able to regenerate thus. The same is true if you take too few breaks, because this can also be very bad in training with rehab and therapy equipment. A very common mistake with rehab and therapy equipment is to choose the wrong weights. This is because if you choose weights that are too high, you run the risk of your health deteriorating very quickly. In addition, it can also happen that you quickly get into a bad posture due to too much weight.


The execution on rehabilitation and therapy equipment


If you have too high weights, you can very quickly do the exercises on the rehabilitation and therapy equipment incorrectly. This can have very bad consequences, because posture is often the most important thing. The movement sequences are enormously important and exactly these should be shown by a therapist in any case. And furthermore, these movements must be controlled. Therefore, it is good if the exercises on the rehabilitation and therapy equipment are always done before a game, because then you have the opportunity to observe yourself, so that you can correct your posture. It is also important that the training is varied, because always doing the same exercises on the rehabilitation and therapy equipment can lead to a rapid loss of motivation. In addition, this also leads to a one-sided load.


Unfortunately, it often happens that rehabilitation and therapy equipment is not used for continuous training. And that is bad, who wants to achieve an improvement, which must train regularly at the devices and thus also the goal soon to come closer, which one set oneself. But too much zeal is also harmful, because too zealous training, can also harm quite quickly.


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Published on: 29 June 2015

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