Define Physiotherapy. Mention the categories, Goal, Equipment's and Method of Physiotherapy
Physiotherapy Definition:
Physiotherapy can be defined as a treatment method that focuses on the science of movement and helps people to restore, maintain and maximize their physical strength, function, motion and overall well-being by addressing the underlying physical issues.
Goal of Physiotherapy:
For Active Exercises:
Restoration of functional abilities, through resistance exercises
- Increasing muscle strength
For Passive Exercises:
- For lessening the symptoms
- Preventing further deterioration.
Categories of physiotherapy:
Short term Physio:
For patients with :
Soft tissue injuries
Simple fractures
Non-traumatic lesions
Long Term Physio:
For patients with :
Complex neuroscience-skeletal disorders.
Major fractures
Physical disabilities e.g. paralysis
Joint surgeries
Goals of short term and long term physiotherapy:
- Increase joint range
- Increase flexibility of muscles and tendons
- Reduce stiffness
- Prevent atrophy(wasting) of muscles
- Reduce pain and inflammation
- Increase muscle strength and power
- Maintain balance and co-ordination
- Maintain bio-mechanical functions.
Physiotherapy Treatment:
What Conditions do Physiotherapists Treat?
As professionals, physiotherapists are experts at providing physiotherapy treatment for:
- Preventing injury and disability;
- Managing acute and chronic conditions;
- Improving and maintaining optimal physical performance;
- Rehabilitating injury and the effects of disease or disability;
- Educating patients to prevent re-occurrence of an injury.
Patients may be referred to or seek assistance from a physiotherapist for a variety of health issues and receive valuable assistance.
Physiotherapists offer treatments relating to the following conditions:
- Cardiorespiratory: providing support, prevention and rehabilitation for people suffering from diseases and injuries that affect the heart and lungs, such as asthma.
- Cancer, palliative care and lymphedema: treating, managing or preventing fatigue, pain, muscle and joint stiffness, and deconditioning.
- Incontinence: managing and preventing incontinence and pelvic floor dysfunction.
- Women’s health concerns: addressing health issues surrounding pregnancy, birth, post-partum care, breastfeeding, menopause, bedwetting, prolapsed, loss of bladder or bowel control.
- Musculoskeletal: preventing and treating clients with musculoskeletal conditions such as neck and back pain.
- Neurological: promoting movement and quality of life in patients who have had severe brain or spinal cord damage from trauma, or who suffer from neurological diseases such as stroke, Parkinson’s disease and multiple sclerosis.
- Orthopedic: helping patients prevent or manage acute or chronic orthopedic conditions such as arthritis and amputations.
- Pain: managing or preventing pain and its impact on function in patients.
Equipment used in physiotherapy:
Shoulder pulley - Exercise for shoulders.
- To increase range.
- Muscle strengthening
- Body building
- For balance and proprioceptive training
- For resistance exercises.
- Strength training.
Methods Of Physiotherapy:
Manual therapy: It is used by massage therapists, physiotherapists, occupational therapists, chiropractors, osteopaths, and osteopathic physicians to treat musculoskeletal pain and disability
It includes :
- Mobilization
- Manipulation
Mobilization:
- Slow movements with less pressure.
- To pull or push bones and joints into position.
- Help loosen tight tissues around a joint
- Help with flexibility.
Manipulation:
- Forceful movements, greater pressure.
- Rapid rotational force applied to a joint
Electrotherapy
Ultrasonic therapy
Hydrotherapy
Laser therapy
Heat therapy
Cold therapy (ice therapy)
TENS
Cryotherapy
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