Internal diseases, also known as diseases of “internal” medicine, affect our internal organs and vascular systems. Physiotherapy cannot cure these often serious illnesses, but it has a supportive effect, maintains the quality of life and independence, helps the person affected to understand and deal with the illness. Physiotherapeutic exercises are designed to maintain and improve functions and to reduce the accompanying or secondary symptoms of the disease.
After such a severe interruption of its function and a heart operation, the body needs quite a while to get fit again. This is where physiotherapy comes into play. Under strict monitoring of blood pressure and heart rate, people practice running, walking up stairs and doing light exercises again.
Below are some of the topics where physiotherapy supports recovery:
- Physiotherapy after a heart attack
- Physiotherapy for heart muscle weakness
- Exercises for heart muscle weakness
In physiotherapy, among other things, the assumption of breath-relieving positions is learned and patient training is carried out to a large extent. Breath-deepening exercises, coughing techniques, breath easing positions, as well as adapted sports and endurance exercises, which are intended to strengthen the cardiovascular system and thus the lungs and heart, are the contents of a physiotherapy. Below is a list of articles from internal medicine with physiotherapeutic interventions:
- Physiotherapy for asthma
- Exercises for asthma
- Pain when breathing in – Physiotherapy
- Pain when breathing in – exercises
- Breathing exercises
- Physiotherapy for COPD
- Exercises for COPD
