Physiotherapy treatment is not limited to ultrasound therapy,IFT, SWD and wax therapy only.When you meet your physio, you may undergo assessment procedures that include general physical tests,posture,gait,balance analysis and problem specific manual testing. If underlying problem is figured out correctly,treatment becomes very easy. Treatment plan works better if it is unique as per your requirement.Your active participation during follow up makes the plan successful. Your regular feedback helps in changing and upgrading the rehabilitation plan time to time. During the course of treatment your physical restrictions like pain and hypomobility are monitored to keep track of progress. Various means of treatment such as electrotherapy, exercises and manual therapy and active participation of patient thus make physical rehab a success. One very important aspect of electrotherapy is that though you may see only few modalities like Ultrasound,IFT,LASER,Muscle Stimulator etc. You may find your physio using the same things on many other patients but the fact is within each such modality,there is variety of programmes.So even your electrotherapy plan is generally unique where your physio makes choice of wavelength,frequency,dosage intensity and time duration depending on need.
http://www.physicalhealthconsultants.com/the-physio-way.html Everyone who has pain or numbness in leg, comes in with a self-diagnosed SCIATICA on mind. Many patients even know the treatment to be done - Traction and Diathermy. Sciatic pain is one which radiates from the origin of Sciatic Nerve in the Lumbar Spinal region and radiates down to the legs. Mostly it may radiate down on only one leg. This sciatic pain is sometimes mimicked by another condition "Piriformis Syndrome". Piriformis is a small muscle in the upper gluteal region. This muscle may get over stressed and spasmodic due to sedentary jobs or may even have structural variations since birth. Sciatic nerve passing under / through the muscle gets compressed due to the above mentioned stress or structural variation. This leads to discomfort / tingling through the Sciatic Nerve route. This condition is easy to treat once correctly diagnosed. Manual muscle release, Cryotherapy. Stretches and ...
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