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There are certain domestic activities that require specific positions and sometimes a little uncomfortable giving some problems. For those who suffer from back pain, here are some tips that may be helpful:

When ironing is advisable to bend one leg up on something high, like a shoebox or a low stool so that your back is not in a position so very forced.
When jobs that require a high position is always preferable to something that you raise (a ladder, a chair …) before pulling force the body to get where you want.
To raise a weight of soil is prohibited bend back. It should bend your legs and stretch your arms so that the back does not curve.
For activities such as sweeping or scrubbing is necessary to avoid bending the back. If we want to reach difficult areas we have to play with your hands.

The more active forms of physical therapy include all types of strengthening exercises, stretching and never miss aerobics, provided they are of low impact.

Stretching is considered fundamental in physical therapy for the treatment of back pain, and should be done at least once or twice a day, even after symptoms subside. Patients should at least stretch your hamstrings a day, even when there is pain, and stretching is an excellent way to prevent such problems.

Strengthening exercises should be performed at least twenty minutes every day. These exercises are designed to strengthen the muscles of the lumbar spine and the surrounding regions. The core muscles are often part of this routine, what exercises to develop the muscles of the stomach are also part of the routine and should not be overlooked, since it is necessary to have all strengthened the muscles in the area.
The low impact aerobic exercise such as swimming, cycling or walking are highly recommended, and should be done in two to three times a week for 30 to 45 minutes, while the high-impact exercises should be eliminated in the recovery period and limited and controlled from the person is fully recovered.

It is important to remember that the exercises should always be performed under the supervision of a professional.

Today I want to get close four treatment techniques of physiotherapy very easy, but we can take more than a painful moment.

Easy Techniques of physiotherapy:

Stretching : essential before beginning any physical or sporting activity and recovery or rehabilitation, and preparing the muscles and prevent their shortening prior to the exercises.

Simple steps to relieve low back pain : a few simple steps in if you are constantly making, you’ll see as you get progressively pain relief and relief that will be ongoing over time.

Simple exercises for the neck : if you have neck pain, is for whatever reason, you should visit your doctor, but meanwhile you can perform some simple exercises that will help reduce discomfort.

Tips to relieve sore muscles , apply Fold and Hold method, here you will learn to apply it correctly, plus one additional technique.

Geriatric Physiotherapy patient says that a person enters the elderly when they turn 60 year. Old age is not a disease, the elderly are more likely to be subject to crippling syndromes, of which one must distinguish between processes that are produced by the normal biological aging that result from pathological aging.

Physiotherapy in the geriatric patient should aim to maintain independence in mobility and the development of activities of daily living

Primary prevention is aimed at reducing the incidence of the disease, including health education and fitness. Once the pathology is produced attempts to limit disability through early treatment and prevent complications. In trying to reduce the irreversible disabilities disabilities through training, self-care and adaptation to the environment
regain maximum function possible we can get.

The old man in bed due to illness or surgery, we
as soon as possible prophylactic treatment and proper posture. The
Prolonged confinement to bed is the first enemy of physical therapy in the elderly.

These patients should take preventive measures such as:
Keep the patient in a comfortable position, which must be modified
regularly to prevent damage to the skin at pressure points.
Keep it clean and meet their physiological needs. Make sure you eat the right foods and sufficient fluid. Maintain respiratory function.
Protect your skin. Preventing complications involves the loss of functional positions.

Trauma, The fracture

The priority in trauma patients is to save your life
then save the limb and, if successful, reset the
shortest time possible full function

Emergency treatment is based on ensuring the patient’s vital functions. How to maintain
open airway and prevent bleeding. The immobilization is essential to avoid aggravating the injury. The proper transport to a hospital is also very important.

The general principles of local treatment are reduction, immobilization and physiotherapy.

The reduction of a fracture is manipulated until a desirable anatomic relationship for good function and accelerate the consolidation. You can use manual maneuvers without surgically opening the fracture. Open reduction is used in the treatment of compound fractures when conservative methods have failed.

The detention is to prevent the broken ends move and consolidation taking place in the correct position. Can be used for this, slings, casts rigid or articulated

Internal fixation is used when the fracture has not been reduced by closed methods or skeletal external fixation with the bone ends remain aligned with needles attached to them.

We must prevent the possible complications, usually thromboembolic problems, swelling and pain inhibition, muscle atrophy and joint stiffness.

The priority in trauma patients is to save your life
then save the limb and, if successful, reset the
shortest time possible full function

Emergency treatment is based on ensuring the patient’s vital functions. How to maintain
open airway and prevent bleeding. The immobilization is essential to avoid aggravating the injury. The proper transport to a hospital is also very important.

The general principles of local treatment are reduction, immobilization and physiotherapy.

The reduction of a fracture is manipulated until a desirable anatomic relationship for good function and accelerate the consolidation. You can use manual maneuvers without surgically opening the fracture. Open reduction is used in the treatment of compound fractures when conservative methods have failed.

The detention is to prevent the broken ends move and consolidation taking place in the correct position. Can be used for this, slings, casts rigid or articulated

Internal fixation is used when the fracture has not been reduced by closed methods or skeletal external fixation with the bone ends remain aligned with needles attached to them.

We must prevent the possible complications, usually thromboembolic problems, swelling and pain inhibition, muscle atrophy and joint stiffness.

Juvenile chronic arthritis

The rehabilitative treatment plays a key role in children with juvenile chronic arthritis. This treatment is adapted to the intensity of the disease and the level of child development. The treatment will be planned and evaluated by a team of different disciplines in an integrated manner, valuing the whole child.

The objectives to be Through a rehabilitation treatment will control the pain and swelling, disminiur bone loss and joint damage. Increase or maintain the boundaries of maintaining joint mobility and resistance force the size of the musculature around the joint and whole body in general. Will increase aerobic capacity, we will prevent postural problems. We aim to restore and maintain mobility and gait patient autonomy by facilitating normal growth and development.

In the rehabilitation treatment of patients with juvenile chronic arthritis can use different therapeutic measures such as postural therapy and exercise through play and sports activities. Exercise is an essential part of treatment and help us to maintain joint mobility.
The application of heat or heat therapy used in conjunction with exercise and postural therapy. It must strive to achieve independent walking without aid.
The therapy should be guided by medical specialists in rehabilitation

Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation

Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation

Most therapists suggest that stroke rehabilitation is very effective mainly physical treatment after stroke.

However, certain published data show that the evidence found is not so simple or easy to assess. However, most of the evidence is overwhelming, because they recognize that patients benefit from stroke rehabilitation with physiotherapy.

This benefit may be statistically small, but for a given individual, it could mean the difference between living at home or in a medical institution.

Few studies address the importance of physiotherapy in rehabilitation optimal movement. The evidence currently available suggests that no matter what form of treatment chosen and that any of the available methods can improve patient’s functional status. In other words, if there is an optimal treatment, so far not been identified.

Until further evidence emerges, the therapies should be selected based on their cost-benefit analysis, which can be given to as many patients.

Well-planned clinical trials aimed at finding the best approach is extremely important in these stages.

The history of physiotherapy should be understood from the set of actions, methods and techniques for personal or collective have been based on the use of physical agents in different social and historical situations in order to promote health. Thus, from the primitive man, we find references to treatments based on natural or physical agents to combat the disease initially associated with magic-religious rituals.
History of Physiotherapy

Did you know?

*In ancient Mesopotamia, a priestly caste called ‘Asu “was responsible for carrying out the treatment by physical agents and also by the herbal medicine.
*In ancient Egypt, for its part, this role fell to the figure of the so-called “Sinu, lay healers.
*There are numerous references to the use of physical agents as therapeutic agents in the culture that developed in the Indus Valley in 1500 a. C., as well as in ancient China. Read the rest of this entry »

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.

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.