Treating Injury Using Physiotherapy

By Alan Redman

Work or sport related injuries can be a real pain: in more ways than one and even with the best pain killers on-going problems such as back problems and sprains can hinder the way we live our lives. Thankfully with the help of physiotherapy treatment many of us are able to overcome the discomfort and learn to lead a normal life again.

If you have been in some kind of accident then physiotherapy may well be applied to injured areas. A broken leg will become weak whilst it heals so undergoing a course of physiotherapy after the cast has been taken off will help build muscle tissue and enhance the performance of the muscle tissue.

Sometimes physiotherapy is coupled with the use of acupuncture. Although up until twenty years or so ago acupuncture was a treatment many disbelieved in, nowadays it is used around the world and has be proven as an effective way to help treatment a number of ailments.

Finding a qualified physiotherapist is easy and the internet is a great place to look for one locally. Ensure they have all their qualifications as physiotherapy is only effective if applied in the right way. If you are under hospital treatment then the hospital may well have their very own therapist on site. If you are visiting a therapist privately then you will need to supply any doctor’s notes explaining the exact damage that has been done. Once you have had a consultation with the therapist they will advise you as to what treatment they think is necessary.

Physiotherapy is a treatment of medical problems due to injury and has been around for literally thousands of years and in many cases, when pain killers only numb the existing pain, physiotherapy is the one and only answer to getting rid of it altogether.

We are specialists in the treatment of St James Park physio and St James Park physiotherapy and can offer sound advice on all aspects of physiotherapy.