When Can Physical Therapy Help?
Musculosketetal Conditons:
- Early Osthoarthritis
- Frozen Shoulder
- Sprains
- Strains
- Mechanical Back or Neck pain
- Spondylitis
- Joint pain
- Tendinitis
- Post conservative Fracture management
Those that do require surgery: Many orthopedic surgeries require physiotherapy afterwards, to ensure optimal recovery of function.
- Fracture fixation
- Ilizaro fixation
- Spinal fusions like scoliosis or kyphoscoliosis corrections
- Joint replacement surgeries-HIP/KNEE/SHOULDER
Qualified Professional Physical therapist will help you to get full function recovery post any injury or any surgery.
Neurological Conditions:
Conditions that affect the brain, spinal cord and nerves limit affect the ability to sit up, stand, walk and do many daily activities with ease. Although the severity of the limitations differs from patient to patient, neurological physical therapist helps patient with different techniqes and therapy to reeducate and restore lost functional movement.
Examples:
- Stroke
- Spinal cord injury
- Multiple sclerosis
- Motor neuron disease
- Muscular Dystrophies
- Nerve injuries – Brachial plexus injury , bell’s palsy
- Post Tumor excision
Women’s Health:
Pregnancy and pregnancy related pain and discomfort, PCOS, weight Gain, incontinence, post pregnancy back & neck pain as well as many other such conditions can be managed by a physical therapist with expertise in this field.
Pulmonary Rehab:
Asthma, COPD, Pulmonary fibrosis and many more pulmonary disease require physical therapy to maintain vital organs in good and healthy state to stay fit and active despite of disease affection. Here role of Pulmonary Physical therapist is crucial and very important.
Post ICU Rehab:
Prolong stay in ICU leads to Neuropathies and Myopathies which hampers patient’s day to day activities due to deficit in strength, balance and flexibility .At times lack of proper rehab post ICU discharge leads to complications during recovery. The role of physical therapist specialized in this area is to help patients a smooth journey to recovery as well as becoming functionally active & hence independence.
Pain Management:
Conditions like Arthritis, Fibromyalgia, Injuries, Trigeminal Neuralgia and many others are painful which required different techniques and modalities from supervised physical therapy sessions to ease the pain and lead to normal life.
Cancer Rehab:
Post Chemo and Post Radiation or post Cancer Surgeries role of physiotherapy was hidden. Patient required supervised techniques and therapies to get rid of pain, weakness and gain confidence which lead to full functional independent recovery is aim of Cancer Rehab.
Geriatric Rehab:
Physio on call focus on preventive care, ensuring that fracture and other fall can be prevented. We use specific Assessment Performa to identify and correct issues with balance & walking to prevent fall and the complications that they bring.
