Articles on physiotherapy and rehabilitation: exercises, realistic timelines and milestones after surgery or injury, and how to get the most from work with your therapist. Follow your own programme; these pages explain the principles.
Sports rehabilitation usually moves through five overlapping phases: protected movement while swelling and pain settle, restoring range of motion and muscle activation, rebuilding strength…
Preparing for brain injury rehabilitation means gathering the medical records the rehab team will need, settling predictable daily routines for sleep, meals and rest,…
Aquatic therapy is physical rehabilitation performed in a warm pool under a licensed therapist's guidance. Buoyancy can offload 50–90% of body weight, letting people…
Bobath therapy, also called neurodevelopmental treatment, is a hands-on physiotherapy approach used for cerebral palsy, stroke and acquired brain injury. It may suit people…
Physical therapy program milestones are the checkpoints a therapist uses to move you through rehabilitation in stages: first calming pain and swelling, then restoring…
A first pulmonary rehabilitation appointment is an assessment, not a workout. A physiotherapist or respiratory therapist reviews your diagnosis, medicines and inhaler technique, asks…
Vestibular rehabilitation therapy is an exercise-based program that retrains the brain to compensate for inner-ear balance problems. Guided by a specially trained physical therapist,…
People with osteoporosis, those taking blood thinners and anyone recovering from recent surgery are the groups most often asked to avoid or modify manual…
Feeling dizzier after vestibular exercises is usually expected rather than a sign of harm. The exercises deliberately provoke mild symptoms so the brain can…
Robotic rehabilitation tends to help people who need many supervised movement repetitions they cannot yet perform alone: those with moderate to severe arm weakness…
Physiotherapy (called physical therapy in the United States) is a regulated health profession that restores movement, strength, and everyday function after injury, surgery, or…
A sports injury usually needs supervised rehabilitation rather than rest alone when pain, swelling or weakness has not clearly improved after about two weeks…
Gait training is supervised, task-specific physical therapy that rebuilds a safe, efficient walking pattern after injury, surgery, stroke, or a neurological condition. Gait analysis…
For a first therapeutic exercise session, bring any imaging or surgical reports, a written list of your current medicines and health conditions, and any…
A Bobath home program is the between-session part of neurodevelopmental treatment: positioning, handling and short bouts of task practice that a therapist designs for…
Dry needling is a technique in which a trained clinician inserts thin, solid filament needles into tight, tender bands of muscle called trigger points,…
A rehabilitation robot is a motorized, sensor-equipped device that supports a person's leg, arm or trunk while they practice walking, reaching or balancing. It…
A spinal cord injury rehabilitation program is a coordinated, multidisciplinary plan that begins soon after the spine is stabilized and teaches a person to…
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