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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muscle activity for Physiotheraphy Treatment
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A Brief Definition of Physical Therapy
Monday, June 28th, 2010Linguistically, 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
Saturday, June 26th, 2010Many 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
Wednesday, June 23rd, 2010Many 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
Sunday, June 20th, 2010Fango, 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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What is Physiotherapy?
Thursday, April 2nd, 2009Physiotherapy is based on physical processes scientists use in the treatment of patients with a disability, illness, or injury to achieve and maintain functional rehabilitation and to prevent a malfunction or deformity. The treatments are designed to minimize residual physical disability, to hasten convalescence, and to contribute to the comfort and welfare of the patient.
Physical therapy is prescribed in patients with orthopedic, neurologic, vascular and respiratory, which may be congenital, acquired disability by disease or trauma, or hereditary dysfunctions. Physiotherapists work in hospitals, rehabilitation centers, clinics, and centers for disabled children and in local, state and private. In addition to direct care to patients, physiotherapists are involved in other areas such as consultation, supervision, teaching, administration and research.
Types of PhysiotherapyTreatment
Among the diagnostic tests used by physiotherapists include manual muscle, electric, and the sensory perception, and measurement of the arc of movement of joints. Evidence of functional activity are important in determining patients’ ability to perform activities that require self-care. When treating a patient, the physiotherapist must use one or more of the following procedures: heat treatments consisting of the use of water at different temperatures, liquid paraffin, infrared lamps and ultraviolet rays, ultrasounds that produce heat in the interior organism, and diathermy (application of electric current to generate heat in the tissues).
One of the most important tasks of the physiotherapist is conducting various therapeutic exercises whose purpose is to increase strength and endurance, improve coordination and mobility necessary for everyday life, and increase and maintain mobility of the arc. Ambulation is accomplished with the aid of canes, crutches, walkers, orthoses, and artificial limbs. Physical therapists also use massage, bandaging, dressing function, and placement and removal of splints and plaster. Also, teach patients and their families the techniques of the exercises and the use of prosthesis such as artificial limbs and orthoses.
History of Physiotherapy
Most agents used in modern physiotherapy and were used in antiquity. The early writings of Greece and Rome refer to the beneficial effects of the sun and water, and exercise as both a massage were used by ancient Chinese, Persians, Egyptians and Greeks.
In our time the field of physiotherapy comes into England in the late nineteenth century. Shortly after the U.S. orthopedic surgeons began to train young women graduates in physical education to care for patients and medical consultations in hospitals. In 1916, when a severe polio epidemic struck New York and New England, women treated thousands of patients.
After World War II, physiotherapy is widely used in patient care. Among the reasons for the large increase in the demand for physiotherapy services were the excellent results obtained in the treatment of war wounded during World War II and the Korean and Vietnam wars, industrial accidents, the increase in chronic disabilities consequence of the increasing number of elderly in the population and the rapid development of hospital programs and medical care.
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