This form of therapy is for individuals to develop, restore and maintain physical movement and function throughout their life. Age, injury or disease can threaten movement and function where this rehabilitation treatment can provide help. Social well being, emotional, psychological and physical are all involved in physical therapy. A physical therapist reviews a person’s physical examination and history to diagnose and plan management where necessary.
There are various specialities in physical therapy which include geriatrics, neuralgic, cardiopulmonary as well as paediatrics and orthopaedic. Patients can been seen in offices, outpatient clinics, inpatient rehabilitation facilities, nursing facilities and private homes. There are also schools, hospices, research centres workplaces or other environments and sometimes training facilities and fitness centres. Qualifications of education are varied by country where some countries require little education and other mandate a masters or doctoral degrees. Message, hydrotherapy and manual therapy techniques were believed to be practiced by Hippocrates and Galenus back in 460 B.C.
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