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Many times we hear that that such a team player that is injured by a “muscle tear” or a friend playing tennis is low for the same ailment. Sports do not need to suffer. Even sedentary people are exposed to this annoying setback.

A muscle tear is just a broken part of the muscle and in severe cases, a total rupture. Usually caused by a muscle over-exertion, by a blow or injury.

But let any cause:

- Severe muscle fatigue or exaggerated when playing sports.

- By inactivity, to weaken the muscle fibers.

- Due to malnutrition.

- For certain diseases such as diabetes.

In our case as physical therapists, general treatment is RICE (from English “Rest, Ice, Compression, Elevation”), is to rest, apply ice right when the injury occurs, compress with a bandage and elevate the affected part.

The duration of each stage is variable and depends on the severity of the tear (mild, medium and low).

Duration of treatment

Grade 1 (mild): 10 days

Grade 2 (medium): 2-3 weeks

Grade 3 (severe): 3 -4 weeks

Pregnancy, childbirth and menopause are more likely the problem

Although the National Observatory of incontinence is estimated that about one and half million men may suffer the disorder, women are the big hit, especially for stress incontinence (which takes place during physical activity such as coughing, sneezing, laughing or exercise). However, as explained Mercé is difficult to establish a number of women who suffer from this problem because incontinence has been almost taboo for a long time.

As the factors underpinning the problem, explains that births Mercé (especially exploited, for example, with forceps) and pregnancies have no beneficial effect on pelvic floor muscle, favoring abnormalities such as urinary incontinence, and even feces. Moreover, aging, pelvic floor muscles lose tone as incontinence, may not appear in the fertile time, but at menopause. Read the rest of this entry »

Chinese balls are no longer the exclusive preserve of erotic toy stores and have reached the shelves of pharmacies to purchase therapeutic use: fighting female urinary incontinence, a condition that, according to the National Observatory of incontinence, could affect more than five million women in our country.

Masterfarm drugmaker has been in charge of defending the curative value of this invention, marketed under the name of PelvicGym, a product consisting of two spheres coated with silicone vaginal health and united by a string. Each ball keeps inside a smaller one that generates an internal vibration through movement. Read the rest of this entry »

“Studying the power of each patient is key to the holistic approach and optimization of the recovery process in physical therapy consultations.” This has been shown Álvaro García-Romero, professor of Physical Therapy at the European University of Madrid for the European Hall of Physiotherapy, under the title “Nutrition practice for physiotherapists’ has been organized by that institution.

According to this expert says, “a lack of nutrients in a given body may be reflected in a muscular disease. Therefore, before handling a physical therapist muscle to investigate the source of pain knowing that food is the patient. ” In fact, states that “the diet affects the maintenance and regeneration of the body, so adequate food may also hasten the recovery of muscle diseases.”

An example of this “injuries are sprains, which should be borne in mind that if the patient does not have enough nutrients in the blood and abuse of the pork will have a slower recovery,” said Professor Garcia-Romero .

FOOD IN THE FIRST YEAR OF LIFE

Children have also been analyzed during this time. No wonder the food has also shown a clear influence on the recovery of one of the most common disorders for which children attend to queries: the ear and nasal mucus. In these cases, “the therapist performs manual techniques to mobilize the skull to the ear canal so that it can move to the nasal and so expel mucus. In addition, we recommend that you avoid certain foods such as cow’s milk, contribute to increased mucus, “explained Professor Garcia-Romero.

With regard to nutrition during the gestation period, the specialist recommends eating lots of fish to support the neurodevelopment of the fetus. Also remember that if “after birth, it was decided to nurse the baby breast milk, eat food that the mother should be adequate to convey to you baby enough nutrients.”

Therefore, the expert stressed the need for all physical therapists are knowledgeable about eating habits that benefit health and having influence with the different pathologies.

PHYSICAL AND STRESS

Another issue addressed in the European Hall of Physiotherapy has been stress, a condition that generates 80% of consultations in this field. “As some muscle aches from a state of stress, the therapist must be able not only to detect the origin, but to be comfortable with techniques such as diet or relaxation, which complement and correct handling,” says the professor.

According to the experts for this reason, “one of the main goals of modern physical therapy must be to reduce stress levels in the population.”

SECTION 1. RATIONALE FOR THE PRACTICE OF PHYSICAL THERAPY IN WOMEN’S HEALTH. – CHAPTER 1. WOMEN’S HEALTH CARE IN PHYSICAL THERAPY: Yesterday and Today. Historical perspective in obstetrics and gynecology. Physiotherapy for women’s health. Development of the profession. Current role of physiotherapy professional in the women’s health. Marketing of physiotherapy services. Certifications, skills and training in maternal education classes. Interim. Research needs. Self-Assessment Review. Bibliography. – CHAPTER 2. ANATOMICAL CONSIDERATIONS: Historical perspective on the nomenclature referring to women. General female anatomy. The female breast. The female abdomen. The female pelvis. The bony pelvis. Bio mechanics of the female pelvis. Obstetric data of interest. Axes, diameters, obstetric and pelvic shape. Abnormal bony pelvis. Mechanical impact on fetal anatomic relationships. Influence of fetal weight on blood flow. Influence of fetal weight and postural changes. Hormonal impact of pregnancy on anatomical relations. Useful information gynecologic. Contents of the pelvic cavity. Muscles of the pelvis and soil / pelvic diaphragm. Perineum / genitalia. Self-Assessment Review. Bibliography. SECTION 2. ROLE OF PHYSICAL THERAPY IN GYNECOLOGICAL CARE. CHAPTER 3. THE PHYSICAL AND THE FEMALE PATIENT: EVALUATION AND TREATMENT: Practical issues. Restrictions and precautions. Collection and interpretation of a story. Exploration of the pelvic floor. Female reproductive system. Normal menstrual cycle. Abnormal menstrual cycles. Painful menstrual cycles. Premenstrual syndrome. Dysmenorrhea. Pelvic pain: acute and chronic. Urinary disorders. Pelvic floor training. Initial training. Position. Rehabilitation of the breast. Female aging. Anatomical and physiological changes. Menopause. Psychological changes. Cardiovascular changes and other systemic changes. Osteoporosis, falls and fractures. Case studies. Patient with genuine stress incontinence. Vestibulitis patient with vulvae cancer. Patient with osteoporosis. Self-Assessment Review. Bibliography.

The General Council of Colleges of Physiotherapists of Spain (CGCFE) on the occasion of the celebration yesterday of International Women’s Day, highlights the benefits of physical therapy in the cure, prevention or alleviation of health problems predominantly female. “Physiotherapy offers many treatments and solutions that help improve general health status of women, solving specific problems such as pain caused by pregnancy and other problems that affect more media, such as osteoporosis, urinary incontinence or sexual dysfunction caused by pain of muscular origin, “said the president of the General Council of Colleges of Physiotherapists of Spain, Pedro Borrego. In obstetrics, physical therapy, pain relief and prevents muscle-skeletal produced during pregnancy. Also, promotes full recovery occurred after birth, preventing postpartum sequelae.

Osteoporosis
Physiotherapy also helps to maintain and improve the physical condition of women with osteoporosis, to promote joint mobility and reduce or avoid pain. This also prevents the loss of bone density, and morphological changes.

To combat osteoporosis, physical therapy offers treatments such as thermotherapy and electrotherapy, superficial or deep heat therapy, ultrasound, therapeutic exercise, electrotherapy, massage therapy decontracting or magnet, which have been scientifically proven therapeutic effect against this disease.
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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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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.

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

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.