Exercises are instrumental tool in keeping us healthy. Just like your car, our bodies need regular maintenance to perform optimally. Physical therapy improves strength, balance, mobility, and overall fitness as well as injury prevention and treatment. Physical therapists help you restore and improve motion to achieve long-term quality of life. What is physical therapy? Wikipedia Definition- "Physical therapy or physiotherapy (sometimes abbreviated to PT) is the health care profession primarily concerned with the remediation of impairments and disabilities and the promotion of mobility, functional ability, quality of life and movement potential through examination, evaluation, diagnosis and physical intervention." Duties of a physiotherapist
The Physiotherapist assists the patient in the movement restoration. His tasks include the following:
Muscle strength evaluation and quantification. Physiotherapy exercises to maintain and increase joint range of motion. Evaluate and train sitting and standing balance. Physical therapy exercises to increase strength,endurance and coordination for other specific muscle groups or the entire body. Use various physical therapy modalities such as both superficial and deep heat and cold as well as hydrotherapy techniques, electrical stimulation, traction and massage for pain relief. Aid in home evaluation to make the environment barrier free and accessible. Assess the patient's wheelchair needs, including maintenance and assist with individualized wheelchair prescriptions. Progressive gait training with or without ambulatory aids. Exercises to reduce spasticity.
