Physical Therapy

Physical therapy is a growing profession with four areas of practice. These areas of practice include assessment of patients having functional limitation, impairment and disability, healing of functional limits and impairment using therapeutic intervention along with consultation and research.

Therapeutic intervention include exercise, educating patient and modalities application. Physical therapists examine unwell or hurt patients in order to decide on the functional limitations.

Consider a young patient who suffers from a spinal cord injury, he has strength and flexibility limits in different muscle groups depending upon the injury level. A young woman patient having numerous scleroses might have functional limits in balance and coordination. Early assessment carried out by the physical therapist incorporates calculations of a wide area of abilities.

Physical therapists are responsible for determining the capacity of a person in terms of strength, flexibility, endurance, balance, coordination, skin integrity, gait along with capacity to perform day to day activities. After early assessment of a patient, the physical therapist will chart out a set of problems with physical functions and review these problems and decide how to tackle them through exercise, massage or a modality like ultrasound technique and electrical stimulation.