PHYSIOTHERAPY
What is Physiotherapy?
Physiotherapy is a healthcare profession concerned with function and movement and maximizing potential. It uses physical means to evaluate, promote, treat, maintain and restore physical, psychological, functional and social wellb eing, taking into account the health status of an individual.
Here are the modalities and therapeutic activities our office utilizes:
Electro-Therapy: (Interferential Electro-Therapy)
It is a therapeutic treatment to aid in the relief of pain and the promotion of soft tissue healing.
Neuropathy Electroanalgesic Treatment: Imitates normal nerve firing frequencies. Prevention or retardation of disuse atrophy.
Intersegmental Traction: Is a way of inducing passive motion into the spine for the purpose of stretching spinal joints and increasing mobility. Since disc have poor blood supply, they get nutrients from the circulation of fluids surrounding the spinal joints. Fixations prevent this natual circulation and can lead to disc thinning and degeneration. Intersegmental traction helps increase and restore necessary elasticity and motion to the spine.
Ultrasound: This modality has been used since the 1940’s. It’s applied using the head of an ultrasound probe that is placed in direct contact with your skin via a transmission coupling gel. It increases healing rates, tissue relaxation, tissue heating, local blood flow and scar tissue breakdown.
Cryotherapy: Helps reduce swelling and inflammation, numbs affected area to reduce pain, reduces muscle spasms.
Heat Therapy: Promotes blood flow to the affected area, reduces muscle spasms and helps relax the local area treated.
Exercise Therapy: Vibration plate, weights, strtetching and strengthening exercises.
Manual Therapy: Myofascial Release, Trigger Point and Pressure Points Release, Taping, Joint mobilization techniques-McKenzie, Mulligan.
Class IV Laser: It provides a therapeutic and non-invasive way to treat pain, working as a topical heating device to temporarily increase your blood circulation. It is effective for chronic and acute musculoskeletal conditions including back and neck pain, injuries from accidents, and athletic injuries to muscles and joints.
Light Therapy: Infrared light is applied to the affected area. Photons from the light is absorbed by the body’s cells as energy. This process results in tissue repair, decrease in pain and inflammation reduction.