Physiotherapy

What is physiotherapy?

Physiotherapy is the treatment of diseases and injuries using natural and artificial physical agents. It is an important component of complex therapy and medical rehabilitation that enhances the effect of treatment, prevents complications, restores mobility faster and improves quality of life. Different physiotherapy methods help to reduce inflammation, acute and chronic pain, strengthen weakened and relaxed muscles, improve the function of joints, and speed up wound healing. 

Physiotherapy treatments have been successfully used to treat these conditions:

• Diseases of the locomotor system (bones, joints, joint capsules, ligaments, muscles, etc.);
• Trauma;
• Degeneration;
• Nervous system disorders;

Rehabilitation consists of a wide range of techniques that can help reduce pain and improve mobility:

Manual therapy is a method of treatment consisting of manual manipulation. Massage, stretching exercises, joint mobilisation and other manipulations that mobilise joints, activate muscles and stimulate nerves thus facilitating healing and restoring mobility. 

Therapeutic exercise – individual exercise programmes used to help restore correct movement and improve muscle strength, endurance, flexibility, proprioception, balance and stability.

Electrostimulation is use of therapeutic devices. It is used to relieve symptomatic and chronic pain and stimulate muscles. Transcutaneous electrical nerve stimulation (TENS) means treatment with short pulses of monopolar or bipolar pulsed electricity. It is used for acute and sub-acute pain syndromes associated with peripheral nerve damage, after trauma (muscle strain, contusion, contusion). Neuromuscular electrical stimulation (EMS) is the enhancement of the functional state of tissues by pulsed electric current. It is used in case of muscle tone loss in the post-operative period.
Therapeutic effects: muscle strength, tone, endurance, peripheral blood circulation and metabolic processes are enhanced.

Laser therapy is one of the most advanced physiotherapy treatments, with beam energy capable of reaching deeper tissues and organs. Therapeutic lasers use light wavelengths to induce photobiomodulation or change the physiology of cells and tissues.
Light absorbed by cellular components stimulates electrons and activates cells to promote growth, reproduction, migration and repair.

Hydrotherapy is a therapeutic exercise for animals with orthopaedic, neurological and soft tissue injuries. Exercise is performed in warm water, in a swimming pool or on an underwater treadmill. Hydrotherapy uses water at a temperature of approximately 30-32 degrees C. The warmth of the water, combined with its weightlessness, makes it comfortable and safe to perform the exercises, which strengthen muscles, increase joint flexibility and reduce joint pain.