Physiotherapy helps restore movement and function when someone is affected by injury, illness or disability.<\/p>\n
Physiotherapists help people affected by injury, illness or disability through movement and exercise, manual therapy, education and advice.<\/p>\n
They maintain health for<\/a> people of all ages, helping patients to manage pain and prevent disease.<\/p>\n The profession helps to encourage development and facilitate recovery, enabling people to stay in work while helping them to remain independent for as long as possible.<\/p>\n Physiotherapy is a science-based profession and takes a \u2018whole person\u2019 approach to health and wellbeing, which includes the patient\u2019s general lifestyle.<\/p>\n At the core is the patient\u2019s involvement in their own care, through education, awareness, empowerment and participation in their treatment.<\/p>\n You can benefit from physiotherapy at any time in your life. Physiotherapy helps with back pain<\/a> or sudden injury, managing long-term medical condition such as asthma<\/a>, and in preparing for childbirth or a sporting event.<\/p>\n Physiotherapy is a degree-based healthcare profession. Physios use their knowledge and skills to improve a range of conditions associated with different systems of the body, such as:<\/p>\n Physiotherapists work in a variety of specialisms in health and social care<\/a>. Additionally, some physiotherapists are involved in education, research and service management.<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Physiotherapy helps restore movement and function when someone is affected by injury, illness or disability. Physiotherapists help people affected by injury, illness or disability through movement and exercise, manual therapy, education and advice. They maintain health for people of all ages, helping patients to manage pain and prevent disease. The profession helps to encourage development… Read more »<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false},"categories":[24],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\t\nWhat physiotherapists do<\/h2>\n
Why physiotherapy?<\/h2>\n
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