What does physical therapy mean?

What does physical therapy mean? Introduction is as follows:

Physical therapy is the main body of rehabilitation treatment, which uses physical factors including sound, light, cold, heat, electricity and force (exercise and pressure) to treat local or systemic functional disorders or lesions of the human body, and adopts non-invasive and non-drug treatment methods to restore the original physiological functions of the body. Physical therapy is an important part of modern medicine and traditional medicine.

Physical therapy can be divided into two categories: one is functional training and manual therapy, also known as exercise therapy or exercise therapy; The other is based on various physical factors (sound, light, cold, heat, electricity, magnetism, water, etc. ), also known as physical therapy.

indicate

1. nervous system diseases

Limb dysfunction caused by cerebrovascular disease, brain degenerative disease, brain trauma, myelopathy, spinal cord injury, peripheral nerve disease or injury.

2. Diseases of skeletal and muscular systems

Arthritis, ankylosing spondylitis, soft tissue injury, fracture, amputation, neck, shoulder, back and leg pain, scoliosis, sports injury.

3. Cardiopulmonary dysfunction diseases

Chronic obstructive respiratory diseases, pleurisy, pneumonia and bronchiectasis before and after chest, abdomen and heart surgery.

4. Diseases of digestive system and urogenital system.

5. Physical therapy of skin tissue and others.

Common processing technologies:

1. Exercise therapy

Exercise therapy plays an extremely important role in restoring and rebuilding functions, and gradually becomes the main body of physical therapy. Including joint movement technology, joint loosening technology, muscle stretching technology, improving muscle strength and endurance technology, balance and coordination training technology, walking training, traction technology, neurophysiological therapy technology, enhancing cardiopulmonary function technology and so on.

2. Physical factor therapy

Physical factor therapy is a method to prevent and treat diseases by using the physical energy of natural or artificial physical factors and acting on the human body through physiological regulation mechanisms such as nerves, body fluids and endocrine. The common methods are: acoustic therapy (therapeutic ultrasound with frequency of 45 khz ~ 3 MHz), phototherapy (infrared phototherapy, ultraviolet phototherapy, low-energy laser stimulation),

Hydrotherapy (contrast bath, whirlpool bath, hydrotherapy exercise, etc. ), electrotherapy (DC electrotherapy, low frequency electrotherapy, medium frequency electrotherapy, high frequency electrotherapy or diathermy therapy), cold therapy (ice compress, ice massage, etc. ), hyperthermia (hot compress, wax therapy, diathermy, etc. ), stress therapy, etc.

3. Manual therapy

Including western medicine joint loosening technology and traditional manual therapy (or massage, massage).