Chronic Fatigue
Chronic fatigue can respond well to physiotherapy and at Bodyfit, we find that our approach is very effective for our clients. We work with you to set goals that are meaningful to you, and achievable. It is important that everything is planned in a way that you find both manageable and enjoyable.
Issues that some people with Chronic Fatigue might want to address with physio include:
- Return to work
- Improve endurance
- Ability to have social life as well as work
- Sleep issues
- Return to exercise or sport
Physiotherapy approaches that our clients with Chronic Fatigue find useful:
- Figuring out your baseline for activity tolerance – what can you definitely do?
- Learning pacing strategies in order to develop strategies for working on increasing capacity
- Developing strategies for dealing with specific issues like sleep
- Learning pain management strategies if required
- Hands on work to assist with pain management
- Supervised exercise to assist with pacing and building specific, functional strength
- We love using our Pilates studio for supervised exercise
- Building core and specific strength is invaluable for teaching your body that it can do what you want it to
- Our equipment allows you to be assisted or resisted at a ‘just right’ level for you
- Problem solving around issues which arise
- Home exercise
- We will develop a program that is at a ‘just right’ level for you
- Not too little. Not too much
- Using short bursts of activity is a strategy which can be useful
- Our Physitrack App reminds you to do the exercises and shows you how