Physiotherapy
Physiotherapy helps to improve your range of movement which in turn promotes health and well-being. This can help you to live more independently. In particular, physiotherapy can help problems that affect muscles, bones, the heart, circulation and lungs. Physiotherapy involves a range of treatments, including manipulation, massage, exercise, electrotherapy and hydrotherapy.
Physiotherapy techniques can improve your ability to use parts of your body that are affected by disease or injury. For example, arthritis is a long term condition that causes painful and stiff joints.
Physiotherapy can help to keep the joints mobile (able to move) and strengthen the surrounding muscles.
Physiotherapy (such as stretching and strengthening activities) and exercise such as walking, swimming or cycling can help reduce pain by building up or training muscles so they can move normally again. Massage and applying heat and cold are usually effective for pain only in the first 2 to 4 weeks after an injury.
Physiotherapy and exercise can help reduce pain by building up or reconditioning muscles
