We often hear about the patient’s need for physiotherapy – a physiotherapist – rehabilitation of an area.
What is this vocabulary and who is the beneficiary of physical therapy?
Physiotherapy is a health sector that helps individuals recover, revitalise and energize after injury or bone pain caused by bad sitting or movement incorrectly.
Physiotherapy rehabilitates the affected area through medical services provided by an experienced physiotherapist, depending on the condition.
What are the objectives of treatment?
Short-term goals
- Relieve pain and speed up the healing process.
- Reduce bloating and stimulate muscles.
- Maintain or increase the motor range of joints and muscles.
- Reduce muscle tension and improve balance.
- Improving motor synergy.
- Stimulation/inhibition of the central nervous system.
- Improve walking and improve body shape.
- Improve blood circulation.
Long-term goals:
To bring the patient to the level of health and mobility at pre-injury, taking into account the patient’s desire and need for physical therapy and the limitations imposed by his health condition.
In addition to:
Mitigating the injury and functional problems by correctly evaluating and developing the appropriate treatment plan for the patient’s condition and then providing appropriate treatment and changing the treatment in accordance with the patient’s response to the treatment
Preventing certain diseases and disabilities by promoting and maintaining muscular fitness and health at all stages.
What conditions require physical therapy?
- Pathological conditions of the muscular system (bones, joints, spine, cartilage, ligaments and tendons, muscles).
- Diseases of the nervous system (brain, spinal cord and nerves).
- Diseases of the circulatory system (heart, veins and arteries).
- Some respiratory diseases (lungs, bronchi, respiratory muscles).
- A lot of diseases of aging.
- Pediatric diseases.
- Rehabilitation of areas before and after surgery.
- Rehabilitation of fractures.
- Cases of amputationwhere physiotherapy performs rehabilitation before and after amputation.
- Rehabilitation after the installation of artificial joints.
In addition to many conditions that require rehabilitation of the body, the patient helps to compensate for the loss of the normal functions of the infected organ.
Physiotherapy departments
Heat therapy
It is used in the treatment of lower back pain and various joint pain and its used by thermal therapy methods that raise the temperature of the bio-tissue and cells to degrees ranging from 14 to 54 degrees Celsius or more.
Electrotherapy
The physiology of the human body confirms that all human cells are electrically charged, inside the cell there are negative charges and outside positive charges, and there is a balance between them, and when this balance is disrupted, diseases occur and pain is produced. This electrical stimulation of muscles and nerves strengthens different muscles, such as quadriceps muscle, and is used for rehabilitation after knee surgery as well as muscle tensions.
Mechanical therapy: is a treatment using medical devices to correct the position of the body and increase the efficiency of the work of the muscles in the right way assigned to them.
Hydrotherapy
It is a form of physical therapy that is performed in water and helps to improve blood circulation (blood flow), and relieves muscle and joint pain.
Massage: Be using hands. And its advantage is that it’s suitable for most people, and it can be used
Improve blood circulation and help drain fluid from body parts more efficiently
Improve the movement of different parts of the body
The task of our department is to identify the problem by rehabilitating the affected member and restoring its normal function:
The patient is welcomed and their problem is identified.
The specialist will determine the treatment programs that will be offered to the patient.
Follow-up the patient’s condition during the treatment period, and make sure that the condition improves during treatment sessions.
When it is done and the condition is restored to its normal status, the physiotherapist will provide the advice that the patient should follow and work with.
It should be noted that you should follow the instructions of your physiotherapist
It is also very important to choose an experienced physiotherapist, as any treatment in the wrong way leads to long-term health problems.