Physical therapy:
is based on the natural factors in the human body through the use of several methods of treatment and some movements that would affect the physical functions in the human body positively. In other words, it can be said that physical therapy is based on the use of means designed to cause certain interactions in the body affect On the function of the member or members that vary from one person to another and even the same person in addition to the early intervention in physical therapy helps significantly in the return of the patient to exercise his normal life as soon as possible by developing treatment plans containing short and long-term goals and these Plans based on the results of the examination and evaluation of the patient's condition placed.
Physical therapy is combined with many other medical specialties including cardiac, elderly, neurological, orthopedic and pediatrics.
Physiotherapists work in many places, such as outpatient clinics, inpatient rehabilitation facilities, extended care facilities, private homes, education, research centers, schools, nursing homes, industrial workplaces or other professional environments
Objectives of physical therapy:
Short-term objectives:
- Relieve pain and speed up the healing process.
- Muscle stimulation.
- Maintain or increase the motor range of joints and muscles.
- Maintain or increase muscle strength.
- Relieve muscle strain.
- Improve balance.
- Improve movement consistency.
- Inhibition of the central nervous system.
- Improve walking and improve body features .
- Improve blood circulation.
Long-term objectives:
The patient's access to the level of health and movement of the pre-injury and taking into account the patient and the constraints imposed by the patient's health and work to educate the patient and give him all the necessary information to be fully aware of his condition.
Conditions requiring physical therapy
- All types of war injuries (neurological, amputation, fractures, burns)
- Children with special needs and developmental delays.
- Some congenital problems are either in the skeleton, traffic accidents or other movement problems in the movement system.
- Diseases of the movement system.
- Diseases of the nervous system.
- Spinal Cord Injury.
- Multiple sclerosis
- Stroke.
- Unbalance when walking.
- Rehabilitation of patients after orthopedic operations and treatment of fractures and post-accident injuries.
- Arthritis.
- Neck and back pain.
- Spinal injuries
