Physiotherapy is treatment to restore, maintain, and make the most of a patient’s mobility, function, and wellbeing. Physiotherapy helps through physical rehabilitation, injury prevention, and health and fitness. Physiotherapists get you involved in your own recovery.
Physiotherapists study the science of movement and learn how to pinpoint an injury’s root causes. They focus on both prevention and rehabilitation. Treatment can be for problems caused by injury, disease or disability.
This may include but is not limited to:
-Neck and back pain caused by problems in the muscles and skeleton;
-Problems in the bones, joints, muscles and ligaments, such as arthritis and the after-effects of amputation;
-Lung problems such as asthma;
-Treatment following a heart attack or stroke;
-Post surgical treatment, for example a hip or knee replacement;
-Loss of mobility because of trauma to the brain or spine, or due to diseases like Parkinson’s disease and multiple sclerosis;
-Fatigue, pain, swelling, stiffness and loss of muscle strength, for example during cancer treatment, or palliative care.