What is Physiotherapy Rehabilitation?
An individual with a health condition undergoes physiotherapy rehabilitation in order to enhance their functional abilities and reduce their disability through interaction with their environment. Children, adults, and older adults who receive rehabilitation can participate in work, recreation, and other aspects of their lives with increased independence. It gives them the opportunity to do so by addressing underlying conditions and helping them to better perform everyday tasks. This includes improving their ability to think, communicate, or walk. Physiotherapy rehabilitation is needed by anyone at some point in their life, whether it be because of injury, surgery, disease, or aging-related decreased mobility.
The rehabilitation process involves six major areas of focus:
1. Identifying, preventing, and managing comorbid illnesses and medical complications.
2. Assisting patient and family in coping and adapting in the most effective way possible.
3. Training for maximum independence.
4. By encouraging community reintegration – including resuming work, family, leisure, and recreational activities – secondary disability can be prevented.
5. Preventing recurrent conditions.
6. Enhancing quality of life in view of residual disability.
Physical benefits of PhysiotherapyRehabilitation:
1. Firstly, Increase Physical Capacity
2. Secondly, Strengthens muscles
3. Thirdly, Reduces Pain
4. Improves balance
5. Improves coordination
6. Reduces risk of falls
7. Improves flexibility and joint mobility
8. Prevents deformities and limb problems
9. Induces a reduction in swelling in the affected joints and muscles
10. Improves posture
11. Improves gait
12. Reduction of unnecessary complications
Physiological Benefits:
1. Improves your mental wellbeing and provides you with greater independence.
2. Also, Developing your self-confidence will help you cope with your illness or injury psychologically.
Lifestyle Benefits:
1. Improved Participation
2. Improved quality of life
3. Decreased dependence
4 Supports your return to exercise or sport in such a way that your health and well-being can benefit – getting back to your original physical capacity also improves your general health.
5. Increased social engagement and less financial concern with a faster return to work.
Types of Physiotherapy Rehabilitation:
A. Orthopedic and Musculoskeletal Rehabilitation
1.In this form of therapy, musculoskeletal limitations are corrected and pain associated with trauma, illness, or surgery is alleviated.
2. Orthopedic rehab addresses muscles, bones, joints, ligaments, tendons, and cartilage, all of which are part of the Musculoskeletal system.
3. Physiotherapists create customized treatment programs based on the patient’s condition, goals, and abilities.
4. Physical therapists use a variety of techniques to help muscles and joints work to improve, maintain, or restore physical strength, cognition, and mobility with maximized results.
Some of the orthopedic rehabilitation technique includes-
Strengthening exercises for example- Close kinetic chain exercises, Open kinetic chain exercises, isometric exercises, eccentric exercises, concentric exercises, etc.
Stretching technique