Collaborative Post¦ I have previously gone to a physiotherapist to help with neck and back pain, but also to keep my body stronger for exercise. I found that it really helped me! However, if you are unable to travel to a therapist due to having a disability, being elderly or having agoraphobia, Home Physiotherapy is available. Therefore, you don’t have to miss out! Here is what physiotherapy could do for you:
1. Manage your pain
Have you got a sprain or suffering from back pain? There are many conditions that physiotherapists can help using a whole range of techniques. They may manually manipulate your body, use heat or cold and ask you to do certain exercises. This may reduce or remove your need to use painkillers depending on your concern.
2. Prevent injuries
Once I’d addressed my back and neck problems, I continued to go to physiotherapy to help prevent injuries during strenuous exercise. By looking at where might be a risk and how you move your body, they can give you exercises and advice to help prevent injuries.
3. Improve your mobility
Physiotherapy exercises and stretches can increase your body’s flexibility and mobility, making a real difference to your movement in everyday life. I remember being absolutely amazed one session by how much more I was able to move my neck at the end of a session in comparison to at the beginning of it.
4. Increase your strength
Physiotherapists can give you programs including strength and cardio exercises to help build your muscle strength and improve your endurance. These can be tailored for the average person or athletes who want to improve their sports performance.
5. Improve your balance and coordination
A physiotherapist will observe your balance and coordination and can help with these. This will reduce the risk of you falling and hurting yourself and is particularly beneficial to the elderly or people with certain conditions that impact their balance and coordination.
6. Correct Your Posture
The majority of us have poor posture. Unfortunately, this can lead to a whole host of musculoskeletal problems. Physiotherapists can improve posture through advice and exercises.
7. Rehabilitation
After surgery or an injury, physiotherapy is a crucial part of a good recovery. It helps you to heal, regain your strength and function in everyday life.
8. Manage Your Chronic Conditions
Physiotherapy can to improve the quality of life of sufferers of many chronic conditions, by helping them to manage their symptoms through advice and exercise. Conditions they can help include arthritis, Parkinson’s disease, multiple sclerosis, diabetes and heart disease.
Based on my own experiences of physiotherapy, I can highly recommend it. I really looked forward to going each week as it was quite relaxing and gave me a better range of movement afterwards. It also made me feel stronger and more confident in my body.
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