Physiotherapy
Physiotherapy is a medicine speciality and science-based profession that prevents impairments and promotes function, mobility and life quality through passive and active physical intervention. Physiotherapy takes a whole patient approach to well-being and health. The profession helps patients manage pain and prevent diseases as well as involves them in their own care through participation in the treatment, awareness, empowerment, and education.
How physiotherapy helps:
- prevents diseases, impairments, and relapses
- reduces or prevents pain and its impact
- increases mobility and range of motion of joints
- normalizes hypertension of muscles
- helps patients recover from accident, injury, or surgery
- prepares patients for surgery to improve the rehabilitation process afterwards
- prevents or manages the effects of falling by older patients
- helps to manage stress situations through relaxation techniques
- improves psychosomatic balance
Physiotherapists practice various manual techniques to help their patients the best they can. Therapists help people through movement and exercise, manual therapy techniques, physical therapy (eg. electrotherapy, warm and cold therapy, magnethic therapy), hydrotherapy, massages and more.
Indications:
- sudden injuries and sport injuries
- back pain
- neck stiffness
- arthrosis
- rheumatic pain
- muscle pain and tenseness
- stress
- headaches and migraine
- after surgeries
- frozen joints
- and more
