PHYSIOTHERAPY
What is Physiotherapy?
Physiotherapy uses physical techniques to improve movement, reduce pain and stiffness, speed up the healing process and increase your quality of life.
What does a physiotherapist do?
Physiotherapists diagnose and manage a broad range of conditions with the bones, muscles, cardiovascular system, nerves and other parts and systems of the body. They can help people to manage chronic diseases, give lifestyle advice, prescribe exercises and aids to help people manage better, and give advice.
A physiotherapist will assess your condition and help you with physical problems. These might have come about because of an accident or injury.
Some physiotherapists treat children who have problems with their movement.
Assess mobility
Manipulate your joints
Stretch your muscles
Prescribe you exercises
How can physiotherapy help
A physiotherapist can help treat many things, including:joint pain
sports injuries
arthritis
aches, sprains and injuries
spinal/disc conditions
neurological conditions, like Parkinson’s disease or multiple sclerosis
chronic diseases like diabetes, osteoarthritis, osteoporosis and obesity
rehabilitation after a stroke
recovery from broken bones
rehabilitation after surgery
occupational health