What is Physical Therapy
update date :
2023-02-16
| Physical therapy is a health profession that conducts prevention, assessment, identification and treatment through the use of various non-invasive physical factors such as sounds (ultrasonics), light (infrared, ultraviolet), water (hydrotherapy), electricity (electrotherapy), cold (ice compress), heat (hot pack), force (joint mobilization, massage) and exercise (stretch, warm-up, cool-down, therapeutic exercises).
In addition to post-injury intervention, the prevention of injury is also an important sphere physical therapy concerned with. |
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