How can Physiotherapy treat your injuries?

Dec. 30, 2014 - PRLog -- Physiotherapy seeks to help patients regain maximal physical capacity according to their own potential for recovery. To this end, physiotherapist employ a variety of treatment methods including manual techniques, exercises, electrotherapy, hydrotherapy, heat therapy and cold therapy. They use many tools both in the assessment and treatment of injured individuals. The physiotherapist will assess or examine an individual's physical limitations, plan a suitable strategy to return this individual to his/her highest level of function, and implement that plan using a variety of techniques that he/she has been specifically trained to provide.

These methods encourage patients to participate in their own recovery so they can acquire the physical abilities needed to function in society, perform daily activities, succeed at work, and participate in leisure and sport activities.

Physiotherapists encourage ongoing preventative self-help techniques and provide patients with helpful information, tips and techniques to use in their home and workplace to decrease the likelihood of revisiting the physiotherapy clinic.

How can Physiotherapy fix your injuries?

It is not common knowledge that Physiotherapy is an excellent form of health care that heals many common injuries and helps you prevent the pain from returning. We see and treat many people who have never known exactly what physiotherapy can do.

Physiotherapy uses many techniques to treat injuries. Physiotherapists use hands on manipulation like joint mobilization and massage, as well as acupuncture, electrical nerve stimulation, and directed exercises. Physiotherapy can also be used in conjunction with other disciplines like Pilates and massage therapy. Physiotherapy can also be used to prevent injuries and increase mobility.

Physiotherapy treatment can include therapeutic exercises, manual manipulation of the joints and soft tissue helps to improve circulation, drain fluid from the body, and relax overly tight or spasmed muscles; all which help to relieve pain and fix injury. Acupuncture to stimulates the nervous system and works to dull pain, release muscles, boost the immune system and regulate various body functions, electrical modalities such as TENS to delivers small electrical currents to affected areas to suppress and block pain signals to the brain, and therapeutic ultrasound to rapidly increase the healing process.

When treated properly with Physiotherapy, most common injuries will not re-appear. Through correct education, and treatment protocol, Physiotherapy helps the body to heal and realign itself to allow you to go back to normal living.

How can physiotherapy prevent future injuries?

Physiotherapy can help you recover from an injury and avoid future injury. Physiotherapist also help the clients understand how the condition affects their ability to function and gives advice to the clients on how to manage their conditions independently and help them prevent avoidable recurrences or complications.

Physiotherapist will teach you methods in which you can go home and continue to live pain free. Physiotherapist put emphasis on continuing preventative self-conductive techniques and offer patients with helpful information, ideas, and methods to use in their home and work environment to minimize the likelihood of visiting the physiotherapy clinic.

To help prevent future injuries, our physiotherapists have begun to employ what they call “prehabilitation” strategies.

Prehabilitation is essentially preventive training to stop the problem before it happens.

Prehabilitation helps you to:

-      Achieve normal static and dynamic posture

-         Correct muscle length imbalance, joint alignment and flexibility

-        Normalise core stability (upper, lower and left vs. right)

-         Enhance muscle endurance, strength and power

-         Boost movement pattern efficiency

-         Enhance proprioception, which is the ability for your mind to sense the position of different joints in relation to the rest of the body.