Physical Exercise, A Means Specific to Physical Education and Physical Therapy Used in the Recovery of Coxarthrosis

Abstract

Physical education and medical kinetology use, for prophylactic and therapeutic purposes, specific and non-specific means. A criterion for systematizing technical physical exercises is to classify them into static exercises, which include isometric positions and contractions, respectively dynamic exercises, which involve passive, active free movements or with external resistance. From a methodical perspective, the exercises are divided into two main categories: static and dynamic. Depending on the effects produced on the various apparatus and systems of the body, physical exercise, procedures and methods of prevention and recovery may be general or specific to certain anatomical and functional components. Primary coxarthrosis accounts for about 35-40% of all cases of coxarthrosis and are forms for which a clear etiology cannot be identified. They occur more frequently in women, and radiological investigations do not reveal dysmorphia or joint disalignment. The clinical onset is usually between 40 and 60 years of age and involves bilateral coxarthritic changes. The symptoms begin with mechanical, intermittent pain, with irradiation to the knees and the inner thigh, negatively influencing walking. The evolution
is slowly progressive, and the therapeutic approach is, in most cases, conservative.