How Physiotherapy can Help You Avoid Surgery and Get Back on Your Feet ?
Article Overview
What is Physiotherapy ?
Physiotherapy is the profession in which the skilled professionals or physiotherapist focuses on the science / dynamics of movement in order to treat the individuals.
Physiotherapy helps in reducing the pain, restore, maintain and maximize the physical strength, improves the mobility, function and range of motion and the overall quality of life by addressing the underlying physical issues or problem.
It’s one and ultimate goal is to treat the patient without surgery and without medications. In this , the Skilled Physiotherapist examine the patient physically and find the root cause of the problem and treats the patients manually and with different physiotherapy techniques.
A Physiotherapist can treat a variety number of conditions and injuries : either it is orthopaedic, neurological , auto immune, chronic conditions , general wellness , pre and post surgical cases , It also helps in preventing various types of surgeries and Injuries.
It is one of the best most and widely popular ways of treatment and people get various benefits from it .People of any age group can get it and manage and maintain their health and shape.
Surgery and its Risk :
Whenever the surgery is performed, it comes with its risks. Although the exact type of risks depends on what type of surgery is performed. Some general risks are:
– Infection
– Bleeding problems
– Blood clots after surgery
– Complications due to anaesthesia
– Blood loss
– Paraplegia
– Paraparesis
– Paralysis after spine Surgery
Physiotherapy can prevent surgery ?
Yes, it is true, Physiotherapy can prevent surgery. Surgery is not the only option to get rid of your pain, it helps you to heal your body and relieves your pain.
According to many studies and researches, physiotherapy proves to be as effective as surgery for the treatment of low back pain, spinal stenosis, osteoarthritis etc.
Human body has the natural healing process when given proper treatment, nutrition and rest. Physiotherapy helps in reducing pain, inflammation in the body which ultimately helps in healing process of the injury . it provides a proper set of strengthening or mobility exercises that is important for its healing or recovery phase. For Example; Patient is suffering from early osteoarthritis of knee and is recommended knee replacement surgery . In this scenerio, physiotherapist provides a set of exercise that helps in the strengthening of the surrounding structures of the knee, to stabilize the knee and provide its better movement. Knee strengthening helps in better walking as it helps in proper weight distribution.
Thus, It can prevent surgeries by strengthening of the surrounding structures which helps in proper weight distribution and thus helps in reducing pain and inflammation which ultimately improves the healing process after injury.
