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Physiotherapy
Overview
Physiotherapy is an allied health profession that focuses on the combination of injury prevention, holistic fitness, rehabilitation, and sustainable healing. It helps promote, maintain, or restore mobility, function, and well-being through various treatments like massages, heat therapy, exercises, electrotherapy, patient education, and advice to treat an injury. Irrespective of the age group, it gets you involved in your recovery by maximizing and restoring your strength to prevent further injury. Physio deals with movement, and the science revolving around it thus can address several issues that can cause injury or disability. They can diagnose and treat disease by going to its root point, thus eliminating it from the system. The diagnosis will further direct the treatment plan to help a person go back to normalcy. The physiotherapists are specially trained to help a person perform specific physical tasks, exercises, and stretches with special facilities and equipment that can address all kinds of mobility issues and restore your motion.
When should we consult a Physiotherapist?
Physiotherapists can help relieve the pain that negatively affects your strength and mobility when recovering from a major illness or surgery. Since physiotherapists focus on both prevention and rehabilitation, they can also help you identify trigger signs to avoid the injury from happening again. It would help if you get an appointment with a physiotherapist to avoid pain in the following scenarios:
- Any muscle spasms, wrong posture, muscle strains, or an external factor that can cause an intense injury.
- Neck and back pain caused by problems in the muscles and skeleton
- Issues in the bones, joints, muscles, and ligaments, such as arthritis and the aftereffects of amputation
- Lung problems like asthma
- Disability caused due to heart problems
- Pelvic issues, such as bladder and bowel problems related to childbirth
- Loss of mobility because of trauma to the brain or spine, or due to diseases such as Parkinson's disease and multiple sclerosis
- Fatigue, pain, swelling, stiffness, and loss of muscle strength, for example, during cancer treatment or palliative care
- Improving body balance
- Heal faster post-surgery
Types of Physiotherapies:
- Neurological: They diagnose and cure a person suffering from neurological disorders like loss of balance and coordination, extreme weakness of the muscles, loss of function, muscle spasms, and reduced sensation.
- Orthopedic: They focus on treating deformities and ailments related to the human musculoskeletal system, including correcting the muscles, ligaments, bones, joints, and tendons.
- Cardiopulmonary: They aim in treating patients who have suffered from cardiopulmonary disorders such as cardiac arrest and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease. They focus on improving their way of life by educating them on specific forms of exercise and resistance training techniques.
- Pediatric: They focus on curing children suffering from acute injuries, defects that are present at the time of birth, delayed physical growth, or certain genetic defects such as cerebral palsy.
- Geriatric: They help treat age-related medical conditions such as arthritis and osteoporosis. Detailed guidance is provided to help alleviate pains, including restricting certain movements and inculcating age-specific exercises.
- Vestibular Rehabilitation: Vestibular therapy helps bring back the body's balance, which is caused by a problem in the inner ear that disrupts the balance and gives the sensation of vertigo and chronic dizziness.
Types of Physio treatments:
A physiotherapist will diagnose your problems and give you a treatment plan which can include one or a combination of the following therapies:
- Manual manipulation: This involves massaging the affected soft tissues and joints for better blood flow. They are the most effective to relieve any spasms or overly tight muscles.
- Energy therapy: It helps relieve pain or spasms by blocking the pain signals to reach the brain by giving an electric current of low grade or pulses. It includes Laser therapy and Ultrasound
- Stretching and Exercise: They are very effective when recovering from an injury. The continuous specialized movements help restore and strengthen the muscles or joints, improving motor functions.
- Heat Therapy & Cryotherapy: As the point suggests the Thermotherapy or Heat Therapy simply means the use of hot as a therapy and, Cryotherapy means the use of cold to treat symptoms of chronic muscle pain. The Hot and cold therapies (application of heat or cold to an injury) are broadly used to combat muscle pain and sports injuries. Heat therapy and cryotherapy are typically used to treat neck- and back pain, tensed muscles, muscle- and joint stiffness and chronic pain. On the other hand, Cryotherapy is used for common conditions like Ankle sprain, painful shoulder, twisted knee, and acute muscle strain.
Some other methods include Functional testing, taping, joint mobilization, Strengthening programs, soft tissue mobilization etc.
Physiotherapists not only help in reducing chronic pain but also help to boost the overall quality of life. They are one of the safest ways to heal, and one should seek their help if and when necessary.
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Services Offered
- Stretching, mobilizing and manipulative techniques
- Diagnosis, treatment and follow up for
- Neck/back disorders
- Hip & knee conditions
- Foot/ankle injuries, sprains/strains
- Sports & automobile injuries
- Shoulder pain
- Arthritis
- Neurological conditions
- Weight control
- Rehabilitation for special needs
