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what is Physiotherapy

What is Physiotherapy?

Physiotherapy is also called physical therapy. Physiotherapists use exercise, hands-on technique, patient education, and various modalities. Physiotherapy or physical therapy is designed with the help of the science of movement.

Apart from helping you overcome the pain, it can also help you expand your physical strength and get rid of any dysfunction caused by an injury. This is a unique treatment, which is generally used to cure people suffering from pain because of an illness, injury, or disability. It also promotes good health and fitness. The benefits are many, and the best part is that it is suitable for all age groups. It promotes safe management of your illness and also lets you lead an independent life, post-treatment. It is important to understand that therapy is not all about exercise. Physiotherapy is a degree-based profession that falls under medicine. Your physiotherapists come with immense amounts of skill and are highly qualified

Following are the advantages of Physiotherapy

• Strength Training.

• Increase Coordination.

• Improve Cardio.

• Posture Correction.

• Improve Balance to reduce risk of fall.

• Maintain Activity of Daily Living.

• Increase Range of Motion of Joint.

• Reduces Pain, swelling and Inflammation.

physiotherapy advantages

Importance of physiotherapy

Importance of physiotherapy

Physiotherapy has become an essential part in every branch of medical. At present physiotherapy has become an important field. It has various importance in our life.

1. Pain Relief:

Physiotherapy helps to relieve pain. Various orthopaedic conditions like frozen shoulder, arthritis, tendonitis, muscle tear, sprains and much more, physiotherapy helps relieving pain by using various modalities like ultrasound, TENS, IFT, wax bath and exercise therapy including manual therapy and mobilization.

2. Avoid Surgery:

There are certain conditions where surgery is required instead is treated with physiotherapy. This helps to reduce the post surgery complications and is cost effective.

3. Post Fracture Stiffness:

Fracture at times cause restriction in the joint movement after the removal of plasters or surgery. Physiotherapy helps in improving range of motion of the joint, strengthen the week muscles and make it functional for daily activities.

4. Assist Surgery:

In various surgeries, it is mandatory to strengthen the muscles prior to surgery. This helps in the early recovery of the patients. Few such conditions are total knee replacement, spine surgery, hip replacements, capsular release in frozen shoulder, ligament repair surgery and many more.

5. Stroke Rehabilitation:

Initial 3-4 months of therapy can reverse the effect of stroke on limbs. With the help of proper exercises, patient can fully recover.
 

6. Reducing Risk of Fall:

Physiotherapy teaches balancing exercise which can improve your balance and helps to prevent fall. Staying active can help you feel better, improve your balance, and make your legs stronger.
 

7. Manage Heart Disease:

Physiotherapy has a major role in post CABG cases. They help in clearing the lung secretions. They also help in mobilizing the patients. They help in improving the ejection factor.
 
8. Manage Lung Disease:
 
Physiotherapy can help in many conditions like brochitis, pneumonitis, emphysema, bronchiectasis, and astama and so on. Chest physio-therapy helps in removal of the lung secretions. It removes the sputum from the lungs and clear the chest congestion.

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    1. dipak j June 18, 2021 Reply

      We are going to post an article on the same please be updated

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