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5 Techniques of Physiotherapy That Reduces Pain

Physiotherapy helps to restore movement and normal body function after you've experienced an illness, injury, or a disability. To effectively reduce pain, most physiotherapists look at your whole body instead of focusing on specific areas of your illness, injury, or disability. This post explores the five most common techniques a physiotherapist uses to reduce your pain.

Movement and Exercise
Physiotherapists design therapeutic exercises to strengthen your affected body area. You need to do these exercises daily for a set number of weeks. When you're recovering from an operation or an injury that impacts your mobility, the physiotherapist may include walking and swimming to your normal therapeutic exercise routine.
If you're immobile because you've suffered a stroke, a physiotherapist may recommend circuit therapy. Studies indicate that this type of therapy improves your ability to walk farther, longer and faster, and improve your balance.

Manual Physiotherapy Techniques
Manual physiotherapy techniques use the hands to mobilize your joints and soft tissues. These techniques:
  • Enhance blood circulation.
  • Aid fluid drain from parts of your body efficiently.
  • Enhance movement of different body parts.
  • Decrease pain and increase relaxation.
The National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE) recommends manual physiotherapy to treat certain types of musculoskeletal conditions like back pain that has lasted longer than six weeks.
Massage is another manual technique used to reduce some symptoms of cancer and its treatment's side effects. According to an American study in 2004, massage therapy decreased symptoms of pain, sickness, tiredness, anxiety, and depression in all those who participated in the study.

Acupuncture 
Acupuncture is the process where needles pierce specific points of your body to relieve pain. This technique may work well as a complement to other physiotherapy techniques to promote the reduction in tissue inflammation and pain as well as encourage recovery.

Ultra-Sound
To stimulate blood circulation and cell activity in deep tissue injuries, a physiotherapist may use high-frequency sound waves. The general consensus is that this type of therapy can promote reduction in pain and muscle spasms as well as enhance healing.

Aquatic Therapy -- Hydrotherapy
This form of physiotherapy is performed in warm water of a shallow swimming pool or a specially designed hydrotherapy pool. This therapy improves blood circulation, relieves pain, and relaxes your muscles.
Because physiotherapy is an individualized therapy, each person will respond differently to each technique. You're a unique person with a unique body type, movement pattern, and alignment. As a result, your physiotherapist will recommend a therapy technique based on your individual needs. However, the goal is the same, which is to restore your movement and normal body structure.

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