The best natural treatment methods

Physiotherapy is a medical profession and an important branch of medicine in which trained professionals evaluate and treat a physical impairment associated with an injury, disability, disease, or health condition. As physiotherapy sessions may be an option in itself to treat different diseases, or they may be a type of adjuvant therapy that is prescribed along with other treatments.

What is physical therapy ?

Physiotherapy is concerned with restoring or improving an individual's physical abilities and is suitable for all patients, from children to the elderly, when their motor functions become threatened as a result of age, injury, disease, movement disorders or other environmental factors.

Early physical therapy was defined as the diagnosis and treatment of disability and disease by natural means.

 The modern definition of it comes from Dr. Thelma Holmes, associate professor of physical therapy curriculum at the University of Florida.

Types of physical 

therapy Any physical therapy can be divided into several types, and the college of physical therapy usually has different departments to include these types.

 Types of physical therapy may include: Physical

• therapy for diseases and neurosurgery.
• Physiotherapy for orthopedic diseases and surgeries including injuries and fractures and physiotherapy after casting.
• Physical therapy for cardiovascular disease.
• Natural remedy for respiratory diseases.
• Physical therapy for diseases and surgeries of children, including developmental delays and disabilities.
• A natural remedy for diseases of the elderly.
• Physiotherapy for skin diseases, burns, chronic wounds and plastic surgery.
• Physiotherapy for obstetrics and gynecology.

Benefits of physical therapy The benefits of physical therapy

may depend on the reason for its use, and the benefits of physical therapy may include:

• Reducing pain and relieving the use of strong analgesics.
• Avoid surgery.
• Improve movement.
• Improving balance and preventing the patient from falling as much as possible.
• Aiding in recovery from injury or trauma.
• Aiding in recovery from stroke or paralysis.
• Monitor and treat medical problems related to aging.

Physiotherapy areas

Examples of physiotherapy areas of work include:

• Treating people injured in traffic accidents or sports injuries.
• Treatment related to women's health units, such as: treatment after various surgeries of the reproductive system in women.
• Treatment of elderly and aging problems, such as: maintaining mobility, independence, rehabilitation after falls, treatment of Parkinson's disease, and others.
• Neurological rehabilitation, as in cases of attempting to restore body movements after a stroke.
• Shockwave therapy of all kinds.
• Treating patients with mental illness such as: Strengthening the patient's confidence through exercises and specific movements.
• Treating people with learning difficulties.
• Occupational health treatment, by studying work habits, and the physical problems they cause to employees.
• Providing advice to volunteer organizations, the education sector, the private sector, and sports clinics.
• Physiotherapy sessions are conducted for people with back pain, with the use of the Futur back brace to reduce the severity of the pain, and the use of Rapidos to treat vertebral spasm.

Physiotherapy methods

There are many methods used in physical therapy, and the method used depends on the type of patient's injury. 

Among the most used natural treatments:

Physiotherapy Heat

Heat therapy, which raises the temperature of vital tissues and cells to degrees from 14 to 54 degrees Celsius or more, is used in this type of physical therapy. 

Where the heat increases blood flow to the exposed area, which relieves the causes of pain, and once the blood pumping increases, this is accompanied by an increase in oxygen directed to those cells, in addition to increasing the blood supply to them and raising their efficiency. 

Heat also increases the speed of nerve conduction, which increases the efficiency of muscle work. Which is fed by that nerve, and raises the degree of vitality of the skin. These heat aids help treat lower back pain and various joint pain.

There are two types of heat therapy, depending on the type of heat medium used:

• Dry heat methods include infrared and infrared light therapy.
• Moist heat includes thermal pads and therapeutic wax pads.

Electrophysiological therapy

Human physiology has proven that all human cells are electrically charged. Inside the cell there are negative charges and outside the cell there are positive charges and there is a balance between them. 

Disease and pain occur when this balance is disturbed. This electrical stimulation used in physical therapy with electrical waves of muscles and nerves strengthens various muscles such as the quadriceps muscle, and is used for rehabilitation after knee surgeries and cruciate ligament removals (the famous injury of football players), as well as cases of contractures. 

Electrical stimulation is not used in cases of heart disease, especially patients with a pacemaker, patients with nervous spasms, pregnant women in the first trimester of pregnancy, and patients with blood pressure disorders.

Ultrasound Physiotherapy

There are two types of Ultrasound Physiotherapy, one is thermal effect and the other is non-thermal, and the effect of each is as follows:

• Ultrasound thermal effect: Increasing the elasticity of collagen fibers in vital tissues, increasing blood pumping, relieving pain, And reduce muscle tension, and help treat joint stiffness.
• Non-thermal effect of ultrasound therapy: killing bacteria and viruses in the affected area, activating and reconstructing cell tissues, working to get rid of the scar caused by various wounds and various surgeries.

Ultrasound can also penetrate the affected area until it reaches the bones, and is used in the treatment of muscle tears and spinal injuries.

It increases metabolism in the affected area, activates vital processes that help in treatment quickly, and is widely used in sports medicine clinics, especially as it has proven its high efficiency in treating muscle ruptures that athletes are exposed to during various sports such as football, tennis, basketball, volleyball and throwing. spear.

Laser physical therapy The laser

beam used in laser physical therapy has special characteristics. It's one wavelength, and it's a type of helium-neon laser. 

The laser increases the speed of wound healing and has an analgesic effect. In cases of osteoarthritis and arthritis, it is effective in treating these chronic infections, and it can be applied to nerve roots.

Physical Therapy 

Many people may think that ice is of no importance in treatment, but science has proven its efficiency in treating many injuries and pain. Ice physical therapy is used immediately after the injury, and it leads to lowering the temperature of the affected area, and reducing the rapid blood flow to it.

Which works to reduce the complications of the infection and limit its exacerbation, and therapists use. Immediately after the injury treats the swelling that occurs as a result of the injury, and ice relieves pain immediately after the injury, and reduces muscle tension.