Physiotherapists are qualified and trained professionals who are concerned with assessment, treatment designing and execution to help improve or restore human motor functions, maximize movement ability, relieve pain syndromes, and treat or prevent physical challenges associated with injuries, diseases and other impairments in a patient's life. Physiotherapists not only improve but help attain and maintain higher levels of physical functioning. It plays a major role in helping a patient return to his normal life and thereby maximizes physical, psychological, emotional and social well-being. Physiotherapy addresses a wide range of issues starting from orthopedic and sports, neurological, cardio-pulmonary and intensive care, gynecology and obstetrics, pediatric to geriatric issues.
A physiotherapist uses a number of tools and techniques in treatment of the patients. The tools comprise of a long list of electro-therapy modalities for example Therapeutic Ultrasound, Interferential Therapy(IFT), Trans Cutaneous Electrical Nervous Stimulation (TENS) to deal with tissue repair, pain, relief, muscle pain, swelling, soft tissue injuries etc. Besides this a physiotherapist uses his ample knowledge about exercise therapy and bio- mechanics which helps them to identify motor dysfunction and thereby prescribe the right exercise for each case and restore patient mobility and physical functioning. Manual therapy, spinal manipulation, peripheral joint mobilization, trigger release to name a few are special techniques used widely by certified and trained therapists all around the world for a variety of problems such as back pain, joint stiffness, neck pain, repetitive stress injury etc. Thus physiotherapy is a rapidly advancing form of therapy that is making its importance felt in a patient's path to recovery along with other branches of medical science.
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