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Physical and Occupational Therapy
Physical therapy is also known as physiotherapy. Physiotherapy focuses on improving and maintaining functional independence and psychosocial well-being through health promotion and disease prevention. Physical therapy provides inpatient and outpatient services for individuals with physical disabilities resulting in pain, decreased strength, decreased mobility, or loss of function. The goal of physical therapy is to get a person back to the point where he or she can perform normal, everyday activities without difficulty. Occupational therapy promotes optimum health, establishes psychological and physical functional independence.
Some programe include if you are overweight, a dietary plan can be created to decrease the stress of extra weight on advocating joints of the back, legs and feet. You gain foot-care advice, including choice of well-fitting shoes with shock-absorbing outer soles and sculptured insoles molded exactly to the contour of each foot. You will learn therapeutic methods to relieve discomfort and improve performance through various physical techniques and activity modifications. Physical therapy can be helpful in establishing an exercise program early in Parkinson’s disease before significant rigidity.