What Physiotherapy Treatment Involves
Your physician may recommend that you visit a physiotherapist if they feel this will be beneficial for your health. This recommendation may come after you have received treatment for an injury, or suffered a stroke or a heart attack, or if you have had an operation.
Depending on a range of factors, treatment options recommended by physiotherapists can include:
- Massage
- Wound and skin care
- An exercise program personalised for you that helps increase and improve strength, motion and function
- Specific treatment for an injury you have suffered such as sports physio
- Manipulation and mobilisation of joints to reduce pain and stiffness
- Exercises for the management of muscle wellbeing
- Testing and training for personal tolerance and functional activity
- Stimulation of nerves using electricity to reduce pain
- Acupuncture
- Devices you may need to aid recovery
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