| As medical science and technology has improved | | | | therapy can prevent from being treated by surgery |
| over the years, surgeries have become more | | | | are strains, sprains, minor fractures, tendonitis, back |
| effective and can treat a wider range of ailments. | | | | pain, and dislocated shoulders. Degenerative conditions |
| There are always inherent risks of surgeries, however, | | | | such as arthritis can also be helped by physical |
| and recovery can be difficult. For this reason, it's | | | | therapy. |
| important to understand that time spent with a physical | | | | Your physical therapist will use different supplies and |
| therapist can ease or reverse your condition and | | | | equipment to heal your injury and try to keep you from |
| make surgery unnecessary. | | | | having to get surgery. He or she may also use |
| Your physical therapist will use his knowledge of the | | | | methods such as hydrotherapy, electro therapy, heat |
| body and will run you through different routines and | | | | and cold therapy, suspension aids, traction aids, and |
| exercises to treat your injury. Whatever treatment you | | | | various types of exercise equipment. |
| are given from your therapist will be beneficial, although | | | | If you are subjected to hydrotherapy, you may expect |
| it won't always be the case that it will make it so you | | | | to be immersed in different water tanks and tubs that |
| don't have to get surgery. Each case is different, so | | | | are designed to help increase blood flow and eliminate |
| you may see one supposedly similar injury heal through | | | | gravity resistance. One common method of |
| physical therapy and another need surgery. | | | | hydrotherapy is sitting in whirlpool baths. |
| In cases where tissues and muscles are torn to the | | | | Swelling of your joints and muscles can be managed |
| point that they must be put back together to heal, | | | | by heat and cold treatment such as hot steam packs |
| surgery will be necessary. Compound or severe | | | | or cold packs. Electro therapy does things such as |
| fractures also may require surgery to heal properly. | | | | sending electric currents to muscles and nerves to |
| The most common types of ailments than physical | | | | encourage blood flow. |