Physiotherapy: why are we being shocked?

2024 Author: Malcolm Clapton | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-17 03:44

Many of us left the doctor's office with a referral to "warm up" or "electro-something-there." Often this direction ended up in the trash can, but in vain. Physiotherapy helps.

What is physiotherapy?

This is a treatment with physical factors: electric current, light, ultrasound, radiation, as well as everything that nature has given us: the sun, air, water and mud. Physiotherapy also includes massage, that is, mechanical action.

It was treated like this when medicine was in its infancy, and even then it helped. Physiotherapy now has many possibilities and few contraindications, which is why it is one of the most interesting branches of medicine.

Why is it needed?

Physiotherapy is needed for quick recovery and recovery from illness. When the disease is chronic, physical therapy helps to keep fit and live without exacerbations.

Physiotherapy is needed when medications and surgeries do not bring the desired effect or do not help completely. Some illnesses, especially injuries, are generally difficult to treat. But gradual rehabilitation is yielding results.

If you want to quickly forget about the consequences of the disease - head to the physical room.

How do the treatments work?

Physiotherapy is a big industry, so each type of treatment affects the body in its own way.

The procedures improve blood circulation and enhance metabolic processes. Together with them, regeneration is also enhanced, that is, the independent restoration of tissues, therefore physiotherapy helps with ulcers, skin diseases, and so on. These are methods of galvanization, pulse currents, high frequency currents, ultrasound.

With the help of popular electrophoresis, you can generally drive the medicine into the tissues next to the sore spot so that the drugs enter the focus of pain and do not pass through the stomach and intestines.

The current stimulates the nervous system, helps the muscles to relax and contract (electrostimulation method).

The effects of heat and light work in a similar way: they make the blood move faster and speed up recovery from injury or illness. This is laser therapy, ultra-high frequency electromagnetic oscillations.

The procedures increase phagocytic activity - when the cells of the body themselves destroy bacteria, viruses and other infections. We can say that their appetite increases, so this is useful after an infection. For this, infrared rays, ultraviolet rays are used.

Physiotherapy relaxes the smooth muscles that make up the internal organs and blood vessels, improves tissue nutrition. Therefore, it is used for cardiovascular diseases and any problems with internal organs.

When is physiotherapy prescribed?

The decision is made by the attending physician. He also chooses the necessary procedure and its duration.

Physiotherapy can be prescribed in almost all cases when the past illness is more serious than a banal ARVI, after injuries, or when the disease has become chronic. Recovery and strengthening of the body are not superfluous.

Who is not allowed to have procedures?

Physiotherapy is not prescribed in the acute stage if the disease has appeared recently or is out of control. Also, physiotherapy cannot be performed if there is:

• oncological diseases;
• blood diseases;
• heat;
• severe pain;
• bleeding.

There are contraindications to certain procedures, they are associated with intolerance to a particular type of treatment.

Are there any side effects?

Yes, like any method. Problems are detected immediately during the procedure: discomfort, redness, swelling, pain, burns. Serious injuries are very rare because the effects on the body are minimal.

Is it possible somehow without procedures?

You can, if you already feel good. Physiotherapy is a substitute for a healthy lifestyle, when the patient cannot engage in rehabilitation (due to severe weakness) or simply does not want to do it. Then you have to stimulate the body additionally.

And if it hurts and feels bad, then follow all the doctor's prescriptions and get to the physiotherapist's office.

It hurts?

As a rule, during physiotherapy, discomfort is minimal. From current or heat, tingling, burning sensation appears, but they should not be strong.

Most of the procedures are even pleasant. For example, breathing in the moist sea air is also physiotherapy. Long walks in the mountains and jogging are physical therapy. Regular exercise, exercise and warm-up, baths, electrosleep and massage are physiotherapy.

Is it true that some devices help from everything in the world?

Of course not. Physiotherapy has a nonspecific effect. That is, it does not eliminate the cause of the disease, it helps the body work better and recover faster. That is why the same procedures are prescribed for completely different diseases.

No one method can fight all diseases. Physical therapy only makes you feel better.

One device can be used for different diseases. But one machine cannot cure them.

Is all physiotherapy effective?

No. We are all different. The same procedure will help someone more, someone less. It depends on the form of the underlying disease, and on the condition as a whole.

There are also obviously anti-scientific methods that have nothing to do with physiotherapy and medicine in general, such as bioresonance or magnetic bracelets.