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What is a Physiotherapy Consultant & how can seeing a physiotherapy Consultant help me?
A Physiotherapy Consultant is a health care professional, with a post grad. university degree, who is qualified to assess & evaluate your condition & then carry out treatments accordingly. These consist, of electrotherapy, physical modalities, specific exercise programs & many other specialized approaches.
Physiotherapy techniques can help correct the problems that are causing you pain and limiting your activities of daily living or sporting activities. The sooner you start physiotherapy, the greater your chances of successful recovery & treatment. Delaying physiotherapy treatment can often aggravate the risks of developing a chronic condition
Many Patients find immediate relief while others find that the correction of their problem takes longer when it has existed for several years. It is important to note that every patient responds differently to physiotherapy treatments.
Anyone with any of the following conditions can benefit from physiotherapy treatment:
- Cerebral Vascular Stroke
- Spinal Cord Injury/Disease (Recent/Old)
- Congenital Deformity
- Amputation (recent or old / major upper or lower extremity)
- Major multiple trauma (Musculoskeletal)
- Brain Injury (traumatic or non-traumatic)
- Severe deforming polyarthritis / rheumatoid
- Neurological Disorders (multiple sclerosis/motor neuron disease/polyneuropathy/muscular dystrophy/Parkinson's/polio, myopathy/Guillian-Barre)
- Status post burns (with musculoskeletal complications)
- Major Joint Replacement
- Debilitation
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