Physiotherapy also known as physical therapy is a health discipline that focuses on performing treatments to improve people's health.
What does physical therapy offer?
Physical therapy tries to diagnose, prevent, and treat symptoms of multiple ailments. His treatments can be active or conservative, but whether it is a chronic or acute ailment, he knows enough means to be able to treat or prevent them.
Part of his treatments with the help of appliances are:
- With ultrasound.
- With heat (thermotherapy) such as infrared.
- With electrostimulators or currents.
- With magnetotherapy.
- With pressotherapy or cryotherapy.
- With vibration massages or massage guns.
- With diathermias or contact hyperthermia.
- With laser therapy.
- Shock Wave Therapy.
Then we can find other tools with which they work to do rehabilitation, which are the following:
- Elastic bands.
- Dumbbells.
- Puncture needles.
- Bandages
- Diacutaneous fibrolysis.
- Material for physical exercise.
- Pulleys
- And many other things.
Physiotherapists, apart from using many accessories, also use manual techniques such as:
- Therapeutic massages.
- Spinal and joint manipulation.
- Tractions.
- Therapeutic exercises.
- Stretching
- Postural reeducation.
- Motor control.
- Joint, neutro-meningeal, fascial and visceral mobilizations.
- Respiratory physiotherapy by means of airway clearance methods, rebalancing of ventilatory parameters and effort re-education.
- Hypopressive gymnastics.
These medical therapists are characterized by seeking the proper development of the body's functions. For this they use all these specific methods for each pathology or injury.
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