{"id":595,"date":"2023-11-17T03:35:43","date_gmt":"2023-11-17T03:35:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.wedserv.com\/?p=595"},"modified":"2023-11-21T22:16:13","modified_gmt":"2023-11-21T22:16:13","slug":"relieving-pain-and-restoring-function-the-transformative-power-of-physiotherapy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wedserv.com\/relieving-pain-and-restoring-function-the-transformative-power-of-physiotherapy\/","title":{"rendered":"Relieving Pain and Restoring Function – The Transformative Power of Physiotherapy"},"content":{"rendered":"
A major health crisis or injury can leave you with limited function. Physiotherapy can help you regain movement and increase your ability to live life to its fullest.<\/p>\n
Embracing PMP philosophy requires a commitment to work hard at both physical and mental self-management skills. To some patients this is counterintuitive and can feel like an admission of failure by medical treatment.<\/p>\n
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In many ways, your core is the foundation of everything you do. Whether you\u2019re playing a sport, gardening or doing a household chore, your body relies on the core muscles for stability and control. Without a strong core, you can easily develop muscle strains, back pain, or injuries to other joints.<\/p>\n
Your core includes the front and side abdominal muscles, the back muscles that run along your spine (the erector spinae and multifidi muscles), your diaphragm, and your pelvic floor muscles. You can strengthen these muscles with exercises like sit-ups, planks, or crunches, but you can also engage your core by simply breathing. Try forcefully taking a deep breath and feeling your stomach muscles contract. This exercise activates not only your abdominal muscles, but all the other muscles that support the trunk.<\/p>\n
Strengthening your core muscles can help prevent pain and injury from everyday movements such as squatting to pick up a box, reaching overhead to grab something, or walking down the stairs. Having a strong core also improves your balance and stability, making it easier to walk on uneven or slippery surfaces and stay upright when standing in one place.<\/p>\n
Keeping your core strong can also prevent back pain from repetitive activities such as vacuuming, washing dishes, or mowing the lawn. And, a strong core can improve performance in many sports and recreational activities including golfing, tennis or other racquet sports, running, swimming, rowing, kayaking, and biking.<\/p>\n
The connection between mind and body is essential for movement, pain management and healthy living. Unfortunately, many people find themselves disconnected from their bodies and end up relying on pills and doctor visits for relief. Rather than consuming medicine that provides temporary relief, physiotherapy can teach you techniques to reduce pain in a safer and more long-term way.<\/p>\n
The most basic part of this is restoring the nerve signals between muscles and the brain that tells you where, when, how fast and how hard to move. This is accomplished by using a technique called neuromuscular re-education. This helps to restore the normal movement patterns that were learned during healthy and uninjured years.<\/p>\n
One of the best ways to do this is with neuromuscular electrical stimulation (NMES). NMES uses small electrodes placed on the muscle that are stimulated by mild pulses of electricity. This type of electrical stimulation teaches the muscle to contract in a more natural and controlled manner. Studies show that NMES can prevent atrophy, help maintain muscle strength, and even support recovery from invasive knee surgeries.<\/p>\n