What Are the Different Types of Holistic Physical Therapy?

Physical therapy is the main body of rehabilitation treatment. It uses physical factors including sound, light, cold, heat, electricity, force (exercise and stress) and other physical factors to treat. Non-drug treatment to restore the body's original physiological functions. Physical therapy is a very important part of modern and traditional medicine. Physical therapy can be divided into two categories, one is functional training and manual therapy as the main means, also known as exercise therapy or exercise therapy; the other is based on various physical factors (sound, light, cold, heat, electricity , Magnetic, water, etc.) as the main means, also known as physical therapy.

Basic Information

English name

physiotherapy

Visiting department

Rehabilitation physiotherapy

Physical therapy

1. Anti-inflammatory effect.

2. Analgesic effect.

3. Antibacterial effect.

4. Sedation and insomnia.

5. Exciting neuromuscular.

6. Relieve spasms.

7. Soften scars and dissipate adhesions.

8. Speed up wound healing.

9. Accelerate epiphyseal formation.

10. Enhance the body's immunity.

Physical therapy indications

Neurological disease

Cerebrovascular disease, cerebral degenerative disease, brain trauma, spinal cord disease, spinal cord injury, peripheral nerve disease or injury, etc.

2. Bone and muscular system diseases

Arthritis, ankylosing spondylitis, soft tissue injuries, fractures, amputations, neck, shoulder, waist, and leg pain, scoliosis, and sports injuries.

3. Cardiopulmonary dysfunction

Before and after thoracic, abdominal and cardiac surgery, chronic obstructive respiratory disease, pleurisy, pneumonia, and bronchiectasis.

4. Digestive, urogenital system diseases.

5. Skin tissue physical therapy and others.

Physical therapy

Common treatment techniques:

Exercise therapy

Exercise therapy plays an extremely important role in the recovery and reconstruction functions, and gradually becomes the main body of physical therapy. Including joint movement technology, joint loosening technology, muscle stretching technology, improving muscle strength and endurance technology, balance and coordination training technology, walking training, traction technology, neurophysiological treatment technology, and enhancing cardiopulmonary function technology.

2. Physical factor therapy

Physical factor therapy uses the physical energy of natural or artificial physical factors, and is used in the human body through physiological regulators such as nerves, body fluids, and endocrine to achieve methods for preventing and treating diseases. Common methods include: acoustic therapy (therapeutic ultrasound, frequency is 45KHz to 3MHz), phototherapy (infrared phototherapy, ultraviolet phototherapy, low-energy laser stimulation), hydrotherapy (contrast bath, whirlpool bath, hydro sports, etc.), electrotherapy (DC electrotherapy , Low frequency electrotherapy, intermediate frequency electrotherapy, high frequency electrotherapy or diathermy therapy), cold therapy (ice pack, ice massage, etc.), heat therapy (hot pack, wax therapy, diathermy therapy, etc.), stress therapy, etc.

3. Manual treatment

Including Western joint loosening technology and traditional manual treatment (also known as massage, massage).