BENEFITS OF PHYSIOTHERAPY

The key to mobility

Physiotherapy is a form of health care that prevents, identifies, corrects and alleviates acute or prolonged movement dysfunction.
Physiotherapists focus first and foremost on resolving pain, stabilizing an injury or condition and keeping it from getting worse. Then the focus is on restoring strength, movement and function as much as possible.
The primary physical therapy practitioner is the Physical Therapist (PT), who is trained and licensed to examine, evaluate, diagnose and treat impairments, functional limitations and disabilities in patients.
Charbel Rizk, Master of Physical Therapy in physical activities and sports explains in detail how Physical Therapy can heal and improve the quality of one’s lifestyle, based on evidence science.

OBJECTIVES
• Relieve pain caused by surgery or medical problems
• Prevent and manage pain and physical impairments
• Improve muscle strength and musculoskeletal disorders
• Heals sports injuries
• Help procuring a healthy sleep condition

TYPES OF TREATMENTS
• Joint range of motion: active, active assisted and passive.
• Modalities - types include:
Thermal Agents, Ice, Ultrasound, Interferential Current, Transcutaneous Electrical, Nerve Stimulation (TENS), Muscle Stimulation.
• Injury specific exercise (Mackenzie method…) and education care and precaution

• Adequate ergonomics advices

MEDICAL BENEFITS
Physiotherapy in neurology helps preventing complications and restores the ability to move again through Integrative Therapy, muscle strengthening and gait training
Physiotherapy in orthopedics and rheumatology helps reducing impairments (weakness, pain and Range of Motion limitation) and restoring function.  
Physiotherapy in Pregnancy helps with incontinence, an embarrassing problem which can affect women following gynecological surgery.
Physiotherapy in Vascular conditions, when amputation is involved, regular physiotherapy sessions help dealing with prosthetic limbs.
Physiotherapy in Lymphoedema, manual lymphatic drainage helps with swelling and discomfort, particularly after breast surgery.
Physiotherapy in Children with cerebral palsy, it focuses on basic mobility. It is a key element in the multidisciplinary approach to increasing a child’s mobility.