Physiotherapy
Physiotherapy is treatment to restore, maintain, and make the most of a patient’s mobility, function, and well-being. Physiotherapy helps through physical rehabilitation, injury prevention, and health and fitness. Physiotherapists get you involved in your own recovery.
Common Pre/Post Surgery
Your physical therapist will focus on several areas, including your strength, balance, flexibility, joint stability, cardiovascular fitness, and range of motion. Most pre-and post operative rehabilitation programs last four to six weeks depending on your needs.
Sports Injury Physio
Sports injury rehabilitation or ‘rehab’ is a structured program designed by physiotherapists for people who have sustained a sporting injury. Depending on the type of injury you have sustained, your program will include a number of parts which may include strengthening exercises, mobilizing, pain relief techniques and functional skills. At Physio.co.uk, we aim to maximize recovery by tailoring the rehabilitation to your individual goals and monitoring your progress throughout.
Peadiatric Physio
Paediatric physiotherapists help children to achieve their optimal physical development. They have specialist knowledge in the movement, development and conditions that are likely to affect the baby and growing child and treat from 1-day-old babies to adolescents. Treatment may involve soft tissue massage, mobilisation, stretching, specific therapeutic exercises and posture education. Because Children are not small adults these therapists encourage children to move to the best of their abilities through play and age appropriate fun and instruction.
Paralysis Physio
Physiotherapy treatment may include: Exercises to strengthen weak muscles in the arms legs and trunk. Muscle stretching to reduce pain and stiffness and to prevent soft tissue contractures. Gait retraining with the use of mobility aids such as crutches or walking frame if necessary.
Slipped Disk Physio
The herniated disc symptoms can be treated with low impact exercises that increase blood flow and help strengthen the muscles around the spine, thus restoring mobility and decreasing pain. Slipped disc therapy can help relieve pressure from the vertebral bones and nerves and lessen the pain.
Parkinsons Physio
Physiotherapy exercises helps to offset the consequences of Parkinson’s and minimize deterioration in strength, endurance, flexibility and balance. Towards the later sessions, the physiotherapist will focus on improving gait, balance, manual activities and reduce fall risk.
Pain Relief
Physiotherapy treatment to relieve your pain may include soft tissues massage and stretching to relieve tension and spasm, joint mobilisations, acupuncture, electrotherapy, corrective exercise, posture awareness, and advice on how to overcome pain in your daily activities.
Interferential Therapy
Interferential therapy is the application of low frequency electrical current to stimulate nerve activity. This is designed to give you pain relief and increase blood flow to the injured area of your body.
