Physiotherapy (Physical Therapy)

No, this is a very incomplete definition. The first stage of physical therapy (the part done with devices) is usually to resolve pain, spasms, and edema. However, the actual therapeutic part is the special clinical exercises that ensure the root resolution of the problem by strengthening the weakened muscles after that pain passes.

Although it varies depending on the type of disease, a standard lumbar/cervical hernia or shoulder tear course is usually planned between 10 to 15 sessions. In neurological rehabilitations (stroke treatment), the process can take months or even years.

None of the applied devices (electric current or ultrasound) are burning or painful; only a slight tingling or warmth is felt. However, in joint opening exercises such as after a frozen shoulder or knee replacement, since your limits are pushed accompanied by a physiotherapist, it is normal and necessary to experience a sweet, tolerable pain.

They are absolutely mandatory. For the benefit of the 1 hour you spend at the physical therapy center to be permanent, adding the exercises your physiotherapist taught you to your life as a regular routine at home constitutes 50% of the treatment.