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Physiotherapy involves several treatment and preventative approaches. The treatment recommended depends on the specific issues you are facing. When you go to the doctor for this treatment, your doctor will assess your condition and help determine the treatment you may need. The top three approaches used by our Edmonton physiotherapy group includes:
Manual Therapy Manual therapy is a specialized form of physical therapy delivered with hands rather than a machine or device. With manual therapy, practitioners will use their hands to apply pressure to the muscle tissue and manipulate the joints. The goal is to reduce back pain that is caused by joint dysfunction, muscle tension, or a muscle spasm. While all physical therapists can use manual therapy, there are some who do not spend the resources our time to become efficient at delivering this type of care or treatment. Patients need to know it is a lesser known technique used by most physicians, and it is not commonly prescribed. Also, many conditions that are treated with manual therapy are not demonstrated with lab tests or imaging, but instead during a motion test or treatment. This means that reimbursement from an insurance company is often limited. Even though this treatment modality is not widely used, it can be beneficial for treating joints that don’t have proper mobility or range of motion in specific Musculo-skeletal conditions. This is a limitation that may cause pain, discomfort, and alteration in movement, posture, and function. The manual physical therapy process involves the restoration of mobility to any joints that have become stiff and reduce muscle tension to help return the patient to more natural state of movement without experiencing pain. This means that manual physical therapy can provide back pain relief for patients who suffer chronic back pain that involves the joints, like sacroiliac joint dysfunction, along with acute back pain from soft tissue injuries like a pulled back ligament or back muscle strain. The manual physical therapy techniques used today are designed to help relax tense back muscles along with restricted joints to help reduce back pain while increasing flexibility. Generally speaking, manual physical therapy techniques use the following movement types:
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