23/07/2022
Yes, you read it right! Physiotherapy can certainly improve mental health too! 🙌
Tight deadlines, long commutes, a demanding job, and poor work-life balance are common causes of day to day stress.
✅How Stress Affects Your Body
Every time you’re stressed, your body’s fight or flight reaction is triggered. If that acute stress is prolonged for a very long time it becomes chronic and may cause :-
1) Depression
2) Fatigue and sleeplessness
3) Inflammation
4) Headaches and muscle tightness
5) Neck, back, and shoulder pain
☑️How physiotherapy relieves stress
Physiotherapy can help manage stress and stress symptoms by correcting muscle imbalance, improving strength and reducing pain.
1. Lower cortisol levels
Daily diaphragmatic breathing is clinically proven to significantly lower cortisol levels, improve relaxation, and improve concentration.
2. Reduce stress sensitivity
Studies show that regular exercise can lower perceived stress by 50 to 78%, reduce stress sensitivity and stress symptoms.
3. Improve sleep
Relaxation techniques, posture training, and patient education on optimal sleep positioning have been shown to improve both sleep quality and sleep duration.
4. Improve quality of life
Physiotherapy guided exercise is proven to improve physical condition, self-esteem, the perception of self-worth, and quality of life, all of which promotes mental health and well-being.
5. Chiropractic adjustment of the body which helps in reducing symptoms of chronic pain.