What is Physiotherapy?
Physiotherapy is a non-surgical treatment to relieve and cure musculoskeletal injuries. It is a highly credible and natural medical treatment option offered to all human beings to improve quality of life. The primary focus of physiotherapy is the restoration of function. Physiotherapists assess and diagnose the problem, then plan and administer treatment programs that aim to restore function or minimize dysfunction after disease or injury. Physiotherapists can also work with you to help achieve better, more cost-effective care.
Areas Where Physiotherapists Can help
- Workplace Injury: Physiotherapy can help many common work related injuries, such as repetitive strain, overuse Injury, sudden traumatic injury, lifting injury, slip and fall injury. At our clinic, we provide evidence-based treatment, including “hands on” techniques, with supervised exercise program aims to help employees return to work.
- Orthopedic Conditions: Physiotherapy also focuses on musculoskeletal injuries like sprains, strains, fractures, dislocations, frozen shoulders, tendinitis to more complex muscular dystrophy.
- Neurological Conditions: Physiotherapists help in assessment and management of several neurogical conditions such as Cerebrovascular Accidents (stroke), Traumatic Brain Injury(TBI), Spinal Cord Injury (SCI), Multiple Sclerosis (MS), Guillain- Barre Syndrome (GBS), Poliomyelitis, Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis(ALS), Peripheral nerve injuries (PNI) and the like through intensive rehabilitation consists of therapeutic exercises to maximize patients’ potential.
- Motor Vehicle Accident Injury: If you were unfortunately injured in a car accident, our physiotherapists will use a variety of treatments to help control your pain, manual techniques and exercises will be mainly used to restore full movement and reduce stiffness.
- Sports Injury: Physiotherapy helps patients with expert assessment and treatment of specific sports injuries, whether acute or chronic, the treatment and advice on offer will not only target your current injury in order to regain their maximum mobility and independence quickly and safely, but will also focus on sports injury prevention.
- After Surgery Rehabilitation: Recovering from surgery will not all be about relaxing and recuperating. The physiotherapist will show you a variety of exercises designed to help you speed up recovery to regain range of motion in the joint and muscle strength.
Techniques/skills in the physiotherapy treatment
- Manual therapy – hands-on stretching and mobilization of muscles bones and joints
- Electrotherapy – pain-relieving currents
- Ultrasound
- Acupuncture
- Dry Needling
At Shanghai Medical Clinic, our therapist will also prescribe a specific exercise program to improve your strength, flexibility or function as needed. Each program is customized to suit your individual needs with the goal of getting you back to normal activity independently and as soon as possible. In conjunction with contemporary therapeutic practice, we also offer such traditional Chinese treatments as acupuncture therapy, moxibustion, gua sha, tui na massage and cupping to improve the patient’s recovery capacities.
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