Physical therapy aims to treat and cure physical ailments through exercise and stretching in order to prevent reoccurrences and allow patients to return to normal life without pain or difficulty. It effectively treats injured joints, bones, muscles and neurological conditions under a physiatrist's supervision. Physical therapists also work in neurology, sports medicine, orthopedics, and pediatrics to treat conditions affecting the nerves, musculoskeletal system, and children's development and health.
Physical therapy aims to treat and cure physical ailments through exercise and stretching in order to prevent reoccurrences and allow patients to return to normal life without pain or difficulty. It effectively treats injured joints, bones, muscles and neurological conditions under a physiatrist's supervision. Physical therapists also work in neurology, sports medicine, orthopedics, and pediatrics to treat conditions affecting the nerves, musculoskeletal system, and children's development and health.
Physical therapy aims to treat and cure physical ailments through exercise and stretching in order to prevent reoccurrences and allow patients to return to normal life without pain or difficulty. It effectively treats injured joints, bones, muscles and neurological conditions under a physiatrist's supervision. Physical therapists also work in neurology, sports medicine, orthopedics, and pediatrics to treat conditions affecting the nerves, musculoskeletal system, and children's development and health.
Physical therapy aims to treat and cure physical ailments through exercise and stretching in order to prevent reoccurrences and allow patients to return to normal life without pain or difficulty. It effectively treats injured joints, bones, muscles and neurological conditions under a physiatrist's supervision. Physical therapists also work in neurology, sports medicine, orthopedics, and pediatrics to treat conditions affecting the nerves, musculoskeletal system, and children's development and health.
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The importance of Physiotherapy
Physical therapy is an exercise treatment methodology aimed at the treatment
and curing of certain physical ailments, through exercise and stretching. While at the same time preventing the chances of any re-occurrences further on down the road. Its primary aim is to bring back the patient to his/her normal self, free from pain or suffering, so that he/she can then lead a normal life; performing all of their daily activities with minimal or no difficulty. Physical therapy deals with cardiopulmonary and neurological conditions as well. Physical therapy is hugely effective in treating injured joints, bones, muscle weaknesses, and many neurological ailments, but it must be done in the proper way, under the supervision of an able physiatrist or else, it will not produce the desired results. Some other fields you may find Physical therapists include: Neurology: it is the science of the nerves of the nervous system-Sports medicine: a field of medicine concerned with the functioning of the human body during physical activity and with the prevention and treatment of athletic injuries .Orthopedics: the medical specialty concerned with correction of deformities or functional impairments of the skeletal system, especially the extremities and the spine, and associated structures, as muscles and ligaments .Pediatrics: the branch of medicine concerned with the development, care, and diseases of babies and children.