Physiotherapy can help an elderly patient who has undergone a knee replacement surgery stand up on his/her own feet.
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Ankle pumps, knee-straightening exercises, knee bends supported by the bed, knee bends performed in a sitting position are some of the exercises that a patient needs to perform after undergoing knee replacement surgery. The physiotherapist helps the patient perform these routines correctly and by bending and stretching the knees and the legs the physiotherapist helps a patient regain strength, thereby helping him/her stand up once again.
The goals set by physiotherapy work on how many levels?
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Physiotherapy works on multiple levels. For instance, the physiotherapy objective for a person who wants to regain walking capability would be to increase quad strengths and promote better balance. After this, an occupational therapist would make sure that the patient initiates walking with the use of supportive devices. Doctors work to provide analgesics and palliative medicines to the patient. Nurses might motivate the patient to walk.
Physiotherapy does nothing to heal joint pains.
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Physiotherapy removes a significant amount of discomfort associated with old age, like joint pain, balance disorder, high blood pressure, obesity, etc. It reduces an elderly patient s chances of falling. It also strengthens bones, muscles and tissues.
Which of these is a principle of physiotherapy?
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Physiotherapy follows the principle of a person s natural ability to use his/her body and its parts to their optimum advantage. The maintenance of this capacity is ensured by physiotherapy. It makes sure that a person is able to make the body parts function in a sound manner.
Physiotherapists teach old patients to exercise in a proper manner.
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Old people need to stick to a set parameter of exercising regime in order to get maximum benefits. Physiotherapists help elderly people to do the kind of exercises that are suitable for them. They show them how a particular routine would allow them to retain the range of motions without going beyond their capacity.
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