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Physiotherapy is also referred to as physical therapy; it’s a therapeutic use of physical means like physical exercise and massage rather than drugs for treatment. Physiotherapists help clients with injuries or deformities to ensure and restore movement and strengthening of clumsy muscles.

Benefits of physiotherapy.

  • Physiotherapy helps prevent more injuries to the affected parts of the body and is preferable to all ages.
  • Physical exercise is more effective in restoring movement and well-functioning body parts and has no side effects like drugs can have.
  • Physiotherapy helps reduce pain like patients infected by diseases like arthritis, spinal cases, and accidents involving dislocation of muscles. These patients are booked for physical exercise by their therapists, skilled in exercise they should be involved in.
  • Physical therapy helps people to remain fit at all ages of life. Some conditions associated with old age, including myocardial infarction, diabetes, hypertension, and congestive cardiac disease, can be controlled by keeping fit.
  • Frequent body exercise regulates and improves blood circulation and prevents heart failure diseases. Arteries can pump blood and avoid the risks of atherosclerosis.
  • Physical therapy reduces overdependence on medicines since all medications have side effects to the consumers. For instance, cerebral palsy, severe burns, sprains, and rickets patients are involved in physiotherapy due to contractures issues, which ensures a reduction in the amount of medicine intake.

Indications of physiotherapy.

Neurological diseases that affect the nervous system, specifically nerves, include dementia in old age, epilepsy among others. These patients require physical exercise for the nerves to retain functioning and sensing and send an impulse to the brain to take action. Fracture patients require physical therapy to quicken healing and strengthen mobility issues. If the leg, for example, has been affected, the patient requires physical exercise to regain normal functioning and avoid dysfunction and prolonged disability.

The orthosis in physiotherapy.

An orthosis is an external device used in helping patients in movement, especially with spinal injuries. It is used to support limbs, reduce pain and improve body alignment after injuries have occurred to the body.

They include:

  • Foot Orthosis (FO)
  • Ankle Foot Orthosis (AFO)
  • Knee Ankle Foot Orthosis(KAFO)
  • Hip Knee Ankle Foot Orthosis(HKAFO)
  • Articulating Ankle Foot Orthosis (AAFO)
  • Cervical Orthosis(COs)
  • Cervical Thoracic Orthosis (CTOs)
  • Spine Orthosis

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