Please tell us about the role of physiotherapy…
It offers great relief from injuries like bruises and ligament pain. The process absolutely helps post injury because any individual for example a sportsperson or an athlete who has undergone an injury needs to come back to his normal life and has to perform all the normal activities that he has been doing before getting injured.
How does it actually work?
With the help of technologically advanced equipment’s and techniques, we try and understand more about the injury and diagnose all the disorders related to movement. Through physiotherapy we guide the patient to perform some physio exercises which will offer the patient relief from the pain or discomfort caused by the injury, thus slowly helping the person to get back to his or her daily routine. Physiotherapy can definitely be considered pre injury as well. In our medical terms we call it pre-habilitation. Here we follow a process wherein we screen to see if there are any potential imbalance present in the athlete’s body which can be the cause or risk for any injury. To reduce this potential risk and imbalance, we perform a screening called bio metalica imbalance. Going by the findings of this screening we try and retrieve the imbalance with necessary exercise.
Is there 100 per cent recovery after undergoing a physical treatment? How helpful is it?
In most of the cases there is a 100 per cent recovery due to physiotherapy. But the results totally differ from person to person depending on the intensity of the injury. Physiotherapy is a great technique to get rid of pain because no medication is required and also the amount of side effects caused is majorly less. The use of a lot of magnet therapy in the treatment can cause some side effects. But I believe physiotherapy brings about a 100 per cent recovery.
What are the simple guidelines one should follow while undergoing treatment and post treatment?
A person who is undergoing physio should understand that it’s not an instant process. It takes time and patients need show some amount of patience with the kind of treatment going on. If your muscles have become week after an injury, it takes time for them to gain back their strength so the most important guideline to follow is to be patient and co-operate with the treatment. While undergoing the treatment my advice to patients will be to follow all the instructions given by your doctor.
Today there are a lot of ways to perform physio even while you are sitting at home which is available on the net. It is always advisable to take the guidance of a professional who is trained in performing physio. Every problem is different and only a trained physiotherapist can identify and study your problem thus offering you proper relief. One must not rely on the information and exercises available on the internet.
