How A Physio Can Help You With Your Body Pains

Physiotherapy has come a long way in the last few years and is now recognised as being able to do much more than just help with sports injuries, but of course, that is an area where Physio in Ashmore excels.

Some of the ways a Physio can treat body pain are:

• Physiotherapists can usually remove the source of joint pain by identifying the exact cause such as muscle tightness or weakness. They examine how your joints move, if too much or too little their flexibility and strength. They then treat it using different exercises, stretching techniques and massage therapies. Many problems are caused by an imbalance gait (way of walking) this can be rectified with orthotics (corrective shoe inserts to correct alignment problems). They look at the whole body picture to see where the problem comes from rather than concentrating on a symptom such as a sore knee.

• Physiotherapy does not just look at musculoskeletal system (the muscles and joints the body uses to move, walk and stand), it addresses the autonomic nervous system as well. These are the nerves and muscles that we have no conscious control over, but control our organs like the heart. Physiotherapy teaches the correct breathing techniques that can help with sleep disorders and asthma to control and improve the mobility of the neck and chest muscles through strengthening and stretching programs.

• Relieving pelvic floor disorders when pelvic muscles shorten, tighten or spasm after abdominal surgery, pregnancy or childbirth. Pelvic floor muscles are used for bladder and bowel function as well as sexual functions. They help to support the spine and abdominal organs. When these muscles are damaged or dysfunctional conditions such as incontinence, painful intercourse or general groin or abdominal pain can occur. These conditions your Physio will often treat with trigger point therapies and core strength exercises.

• Physio in Ashmore helps to combat obesity by helping people with tendonitis and sore knees through personalized exercise programs that do not overtax painful joints but get sedentary people back moving and exercising again.

• Physio can help relieve or ease chronic pain by strengthening muscles around painful joints, thereby relieving the pressure on them.

• Physio can help relieve back pain from conditions such as bad posture and muscle strain. This often involves strengthening exercises, weight management and muscle re-patterning, the change or the coordination of all the groups of muscles in the affected areas.

• As there are 24 major muscles that need to be addressed in the lower back just strengthen a few of them as in most exercises do not have the same effect as retraining all 24 to work together.

Physio in Ashmore or anywhere else is not an instant fix, many people expect to walk painfully in and then emerge pain free instantly, but Physio is a long term fix using exercise and practice to retrain muscles that solve problems and prevents reoccurrence of pain and injury.

Your Physiotherapist will check your whole body movement and find the root causes of your pain, then begin to rectify the problem to give you a long term solution for all types of body pain, whether it’s from illness, injury or lifestyle choices they can treat a wide range of conditions without drugs.