Physical therapy involves the application of “kinetic and mechanical as well as thermal, electrical, actinic, and physicochemical action qualities in prevention, therapy, and rehabilitation.”
Physical therapy includes subsequent forms of medical treatment based on physical methods. These principles include heat, direct current, infrared and ultraviolet light, water applications, and mechanical treatments.
The following forms of treatment belong to the physical therapy group:
- Balneotherapy
- Electrotherapy
- Occupational therapy
- Direct and stimulation current therapy
- Heliotherapy
- High frequency therapy
- Hydrotherapy
- Inhalation therapy
- Climatherapy
- Physiotherapy
- Light therapy
- Mechanotherapy/Medicomechanics
- Manual therapy
- Massage therapy
- Phototherapy
- Sports therapy
- Ultrasound therapy
- Thermo- and cryotherapy/heat and cold therapy
Physical therapy offers a wide range of gentle and natural treatment methods that allow the therapy of a wide variety of ailments and diseases.
