[Preconditions for disease-specific exercise therapy]

The exercise therapy is a therapy of physiological reactions. Moving impulses can lead to direct or indirect functional reactions in different systems (i.e. neuromotor, cardiovascular etc.). As an aim within the therapy, exercise is used either under adaptive substituting or compensatory relieving. In order to reach economic and effective functional results, many aspects have to be considered many aspects, such as executing-, planning- and control criteria. They are demonstrated by means of selected samples of diseases and injuries of the locomotor apparatus.