What is Physiotherapy?
Physiotherapy helps restore movement and function when someone is affected by injury, illness or disability. Physiotherapists help people affected by injury, illness or disability through movement and exercise, manual therapy, education and advice. They maintain health for people of all ages, helping patients to manage pain and prevent disease. The profession helps to encourage development and facilitate recovery, enabling people to stay in work while helping them to remain independent for as long as possible.
What Physiotherapists do?
Physiotherapy is a science-based profession and takes a ‘whole person’ approach to health and wellbeing, which includes the patient’s general lifestyle. At the core is the patient’s involvement in their own care, through education, awareness, empowerment and participation in their treatment.
Benefits of Physiotherapy
- Promoting optimal mobility, physical activity and overall health and wellness
- Preventing disease, injuries and disability
- Managing acute and chronic condition, activity limitation and participation restriction
- Improving and maintaining optimal functional independence and physical performance
- Rehabilitating injury and effects of disease or disability with therapeutic exercise programs and other intervention
- Educating and planning maintenance and support program to prevent re-occurence, re-injury or functional decline