Miofeedback: Advantages and Disadvantages

Posted by Aiko Masami | July 20th, 2010 in Physiotherapy Equipment | No Comments »

Advantages of the Miofeedback technique
The advantages of the Miofeedback technique allow:
* Direct observation of the therapeutic activity, both the patient and the therapist.
* The patient quickly understand and learn the task assigned.
* The patient is encouraged in their level of participation.
* You can see the evolution of the process objective.
* May apply modifications to avoid errors or adapt to changes.
* The method or protocol is customized for each patient.
* It helps in the process of paralysis.
* It is a safe method (except in intracavitary applications).
* Allows you to treat children by the ease of adapting to the computer entertainment gadgets.
* Lets try it facilitates the concentration of elderly in therapy.
* Can be used by patients with some level of intellectual disability.

Disadvantages of the Miofeedback technique
* It takes good quality equipment and high performance.
* For incontinence therapies requires appropriate facilities, specific working methodologies, domain and very specific expertise in these techniques and hygiene care with the material.
* The parasitic electrical waves abound and frequently alter the normal treatment.
* The care and handling of electrodes and wires for the patient should be exquisite.
* The small and portable equipment greatly limit the possibilities of therapy.

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Miofeedback In Physiotherapy

Posted by Aiko Masami | July 15th, 2010 in Physiotherapy Equipment | 1 Comment »

Miofeedback In Physiotherapy

Miofeedback technique is a powerful tool in physiotherapy. In everyday life we are constantly guided by feedback or information that modulates our business. The importance of this tool is that it allows us to break the Barrea considered autonomic biological functions with the control of voluntary activity.

Definitions
* Feedback
* Biofeedback – concerning the biological activity – BFB -
* Miofeedback – detects muscle electroactivity

Miofeedback Process
Three electrodes are applied (one makes of indifferent and the other two asset (the remaining two waves captures a positive charge and the other negative charge waves with reference wing neutral or indifferent).

The equipment is extremely sensitive, that detects microvolt levels on the skin from the depolarization of muscle fibers. The miofeedback not represent the muscle activity as an electromyograph, but integrates the signal in half of all muscle activity.

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Social utility of physical therapy

Posted by Aiko Masami | July 10th, 2010 in Therapist | No Comments »

physical therapy

Physical therapy and, specifically, physical therapist, health agent, working for the prevention, cure and palliation of musculoskeletal and postural problems.

The practitioner develops its work in four main areas:
* Assistance: work to promote, prevent, cure and alleviate the health of patients using the breadth of knowledge acquired in their training.
* Teacher: your job is to educate and promote knowledge of physiotherapy in the public and private colleges as well as training proposals called for continued training of the physiotherapist.
* Researchers: your job is to find scientific evidence of the modes of action of physiotherapy, offering the patient, therefore, those actions with greater guarantees of success, proven scientifically valid studies of the scientific community.
* Management and Administration : carry out his work in the direction of health care centers, educational or professional associations.

What is it and does a physical therapist?
Based on the current concept of health, physical therapists operate from three levels: primary (prevention, education and empowerment), secondary (healing process) and tertiary (treatment of diseases and functional recovery in chronic and processes already in place).

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Physiotherapy Information

Posted by Aiko Masami | July 5th, 2010 in Therapist | 1 Comment »

Physiotherapy Information

What is Physiotherapy?
Physiotherapy is a discipline of Health that offers an alternative non-pharmacological treatment, in many cases, helps to alleviate the symptoms of many ailments, both acute and chronic.

Physiotherapy is often associated with physical therapists or massage, but its array of therapeutic techniques is much wider.

Who is the therapist?
The Physiotherapist is a health professional university. Their powers are set out in the Law on Management of Health Professions. The qualification is ostentatious of Diploma in Physiotherapy (3 years). Under the new rules, fitness to the European, will be the bachelor’s degree in Physiotherapy (four years).

As a professional in their training college is guaranteed by an official title, with the assurance of content and hours of mandatory practice that entails (some 2300 hours of training at present is about 4000 become the new bachelor’s degree in Physical Therapy) .

Following his studies, his training is enriched with continuous training in innovative techniques and methods provided under the guarantee that gives you belong to the scientific community.

The therapist can offer multiple solutions to health problems, while ensuring security, reliability and efficiency.

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muscle activity for Physiotheraphy Treatment

Posted by Van Hellen | June 30th, 2010 in History of Physiotherapy | No Comments »

Physiotherapy is based on the treatment of the symptoms and the function or activity limitations of patients that are made visible in the form of findings. It uses mainly manual skills of the therapist, as appropriate by natural physical stimuli (eg heat, cold, pressure, radiation, electricity) and promotes the intrinsic activity (coordinated muscle activity and the conscious perception) of the patient. The treatment is adapted to the anatomical and physiological, cognitive and motivational characteristics of the patient. Here, treatment is one part in a natural, physiological reactions of the organism (eg muscle and metabolism), and also to an improved understanding of the functioning of the organism (dysfunctions / resources) and to adopt responsible use of one’s own body from. The goal is to restore, maintain or promote health and very often the pain reduction.

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A Brief Definition of Physical Therapy

Posted by Van Hellen | June 28th, 2010 in History of Physiotherapy | 1 Comment »

Linguistically, the terms come physiotherapy and physical therapy from the Greek word physis (= nature) from. Basic principles of physiotherapy is to exercise stimuli to the organism, which in its natural environment are already available. Such stimuli can include the application of heat or cold, or the execution of specific active or passive movements. All of these stimuli, ie heat, cold, and movements of the body already knows from everyday life. In contrast, the stimuli appear in physical therapy but not random and undirected one on the organism, but also consciously controlled and targeted manner. One such example is the local application of refrigeration in inflammatory processes.

Finally, the stimuli to fulfill a purpose or a therapeutic aim: They should produce an active response of the organism. These responses come from the natural range of physical reactions. It’s automatic, for example, the skin responds to a cold stimulus at first with white blaze, later reactive with redness and warming. Such natural reactions controls the involuntary nervous system. Does it have to respond again to the same stimulus, in his answer will change sooner or later something. To be therapeutically effective the stimulus, however, affect more than once – series, he must, wherever possible, term treatment are used.

Besides the direct response and change in this response over time, the physical therapy procedures have usually also indirect effects. For example, the repeated application of heat and cold stimuli, alternating the body acclimatise to colds.

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Areas of Physical Therapy

Posted by Van Hellen | June 26th, 2010 in History of Physiotherapy | 2 Comments »

Many of the successes of medicine in practice, in hospitals and in rehabilitation are not possible without the physiotherapy. Priorities include the treatment of pain and removal of functional deficits. This is not always just about the musculoskeletal system – although the diseases prevalent because of the age structure of population of course – even nervous, cardiovascular, metabolic or respiratory disorders are physical therapy to influence prices.

And what is often forgotten: Physiotherapy is not just a means to restore or heal. It is also particularly true for once-recognized risk or vulnerability to be proactive. Extend back to disorder of body function that must be made irreversible, the physiotherapy management processes set in motion.

Consequently, the three areas of physical therapy are in the

  • Prevention: (prevention) prevention of the emergence of diseases (so-called primary or Erstprävention) or the prevention of recurrence of a similar disease (so-called second or secondary prevention).
  • Therapy (treatment) early and long-term treatment of acute and chronic illnesses, support to other treatment measures for acute illnesses. Improve the quality of life in older age.
  • Rehabilitation: Measures to restore capabilities that enable it to participate in spite of physical impairments in daily life. Reduce or offset of loss of function, quality of life etc.
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Physical Therapy Development

Posted by Van Hellen | June 23rd, 2010 in History of Physiotherapy | No Comments »

Many procedures of physical therapy are known to mankind for a long time. Mounts of sources and appropriate findings, the archaeologists have made show that thermal and mineral springs were already used in early times.
4000 years ago the Chinese, but also the rough Teutons already knew sweat baths, and various forms of massage. Yet these procedures were not part of any rational therapy suffering, but rather religious and magical procedures or nonspecific remedies. Even in the archaic medicine in Greece had been bathing a dual function: it served the same cleaning and religious purposes.

Hippocrates is considered the founder of scientific medicine

Only Hippocrates of Kos (460-377 BC) represented views which are reflected in principles of today’s physical therapy. He understood the body as a living organism, health as balance and disease as disturbed physical and mental state overall. He was also convinced that nature has a kind of its own healing power. Seeing the doctor’s task

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Physical Therapy – an Overview

Posted by Van Hellen | June 20th, 2010 in History of Physiotherapy | 1 Comment »

Fango, Kneipp and massage – this is the one most people spontaneously, when it comes to physical therapy or physical therapy. Some people think then perhaps even to the physiotherapy. In the physical therapy has much more to offer.

The first confusion rises at the concept: what physical therapy is different from physical therapy? There are different opinions. While the talk of a physical therapy and physiotherapy in the same breath and with it the same thing, others turn a difference. Even the legislature is not entirely conclusive: on one hand he speaks of a “physical therapist law,” the other, he says elsewhere, “Physical Therapy”.

Sometimes it is also dependent on the profession, which term is preferred: doctors often talk about the Physical Therapy, physiotherapists and masseurs are rather of the physiotherapy. Physiotherapists and masseurs further training call themselves physiotherapists, doctors konnnen “Specialist in Physical Medicine to be” or the suffix “take physical therapy.” The Physical Therapy in turn is part of Physical Medicine.

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Myocardial Infarction

Posted by Van Hellen | June 17th, 2010 in Cardiovascular | No Comments »

Infarction of the lower region of the myocardium: dark red, the necrotic area of the wall of the heart muscle. Myocardial infarction (MI is an abbreviation) is a necrosis (cell death) of a portion of heart muscle. In common parlance, we call most often a heart attack. It occurs when one or more coronary arteries become blocked, cells in the myocardium (the muscle forming the heart) irrigated by this (these) artery (s) are then more oxygen, causing their suffering (pain) and may lead to their death (myocardial scar that usually persist). The area “infarcted” does incur more correctly.

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