6 Reasons to See a Physical Therapist

Physiotherapy helps people who have medical conditions, illnesses or injuries that limit their ability to move and function normally. A personalized physical therapy program can help individuals return to their previous level of activity and improve activities and lifestyle changes that can help prevent and improve health and well-being.

Moreover, in most cases, physiotherapy is a necessary requirement for recovery to be complete, efficient and the effects to be maintained over time. However, it is also interesting to highlight the preventive work of physiotherapy. That is why I propose these six reasons to attend physiotherapy sessions for optimum health.

Injury treatments:

It is assumed that with the use of preventive physiotherapy, injuries should not occur. However, when this preparation is not performed, is performed inefficiently, or other factors that escape the hands of the physiotherapist, they inevitably occur. Whether due to permanent pain, sprains or other major injuries, without proper treatment, they can force the athlete to abandon his practice, so the time comes for this science to re-enter.

Immediately after the medical diagnosis, the first thing that must be started is the treatment, for which a multidisciplinary team must be formed. Immediately after the medical diagnosis, the first thing that must be started is the treatment, for which a multidisciplinary team must be formed, where indisputably must be a doctor and a physiotherapist.

The therapeutic alternatives are quite varied, should be selected the most appropriate to the type of pathology, and that allows recovery can occur as quickly as possible. It is advisable to keep the athlete at rest to ensure their total improvement.

Specific training:

With the help of a physiotherapist (better if you are specialized in sports injuries), you will be able to carry out specific exercises to strengthen those areas more given to injuries, according to the activity that is practiced. For example, specific training of proprioceptive type of ankles and knees, for soccer players, skiers, jumpers and all those who practice intense exercise with the risk of injury in these areas.

Preventive measures:

Depending on the exercise or activity that is practiced, the physiotherapist may recommend, for example, ankle care bandages in football players or martial artists, finger bandages for climbers, guidelines for applying cold or heat when there is a slight injury and other types of measures that can help reduce the risk of injury and maintain a good level of performance.

Passive techniques:

The best of physiotherapies are the active techniques, that is, those in which the subject participates by performing an exercise to improve his health. However, passive techniques are also very useful. For example, mobility exercises, stretching, or massage to relax the tension of the twins or the lumbar region, or other regions, depending on the exercise performed. If these techniques are performed before the pain is a limiting problem (we are talking about a mainly muscular or articular pain) they can guarantee a decrease in the risk of suffering an injury that requires a longer treatment.

Referral to other professionals:

As health professionals, physiotherapists are able to address a number of problems or to prevent them. But it is also very useful his ability to refer to other professionals, according to the needs of the person. Whether to other health professionals or to personal trainers or sports centers, so that the advice of the person in terms of exercise and health is as complete as possible.

Health tips:

It is an interesting work that sometimes is not used because of the need of both the patient and the professional that the physiotherapist has to get their hands on or give message to perform the treatment. But health information is also a very important work of physiotherapists. Sometimes you may find it unreasonable to go to a physical therapist to ask if you are doing something wrong that increases the risk of injury, whether that physical activity is appropriate for your particular case, physiotherapy can do well to relieve your ailments.

This information is very valuable, and it is ideal that you can give in person healthy subjects, before suffering an injury that requires a long and complicated treatment.

In short, we want to emphasize that, as in other health professions, prevention is more advantageous than cure. We can see the comparison with dentists since it is more practical, easy and also economical to go to the dentist regularly before there is a pain that will not let us or eat. Preventive measures will help to make the damage much smaller. With physical therapy it is the same: it is no longer necessary to receive information, counseling, treatment, and training before suffering an injury that leaves us a time in the dry-dock, and that perhaps we could have avoided (or reduced its scope) by applying the measures.

MaxWell Medical specializes in chiropractic care, neck pain treatment, back pain treatment, and sports medicine therapies.