What does physical therapy mean?

Physical therapy physical therapy using artificial or natural physical factors in the human body, so that it produces a favorable response, to achieve the purpose of prevention and treatment of disease method. It is an important part of rehabilitation therapy. Physical factors through the direct effect on the local, and the indirect effect of the nerves, body fluids caused by the body's response to adjust the blood circulation, improve nutritional metabolism, improve immune function, regulate the function of the nervous system, and promote the repair of tissues, thus eliminating the disease-causing factors, improve the pathological process, to achieve the purpose of the disease. Commonly used artificial physical factors are electricity, light, sound, magnetism, temperature and mechanical force. Electrotherapy is divided into direct current, low-frequency electricity, medium-frequency electricity, high-frequency electricity and electrostatic therapy; phototherapy is divided into infrared, visible light, ultraviolet and laser therapy; acoustic therapy is divided into ultrasound and ultra-low-sound therapy; the use of temperature therapy has heat therapy, cold therapy and cryotherapy; the use of mechanical force therapy has massage, massage, manipulation therapy, traction and exercise. Exercise therapy is an important element of physical therapy, which is a method of comprehensively utilizing the patient's force and applied mechanical force to prevent and treat diseases. Commonly used physical factors in nature are daylight, atmosphere, seawater, mineral springs, mountains and forests, etc. People are in different natural environments, accepting the combined effects of different natural physical factors in the environment to prevent and treat diseases. Artificial physical factors can also be used for physical diagnosis, physical therapy commonly used in low-frequency pulsed electricity to determine the functional status of peripheral nerves, using pressure sensors to determine the changes in the center of gravity of the human body in order to determine the balance of function, the use of ultraviolet erythema response to determine the human body to the sunlight is sensitive to the determination of the electrical excitability of acupoints in order to estimate the functional state of the meridian, and so on. Physical therapy has a wide range of clinical applications, such as acute and chronic inflammation, acute and chronic injuries, limb movement dysfunction, pain syndromes, and dysfunction of internal organs. The method of applying various physical factors to the human body to prevent and treat diseases is called physical therapy, or physiotherapy for short. In addition, it is also widely used in the diagnosis of diseases. Physiotherapy can be divided into two categories: (a) artificial physical factors therapy 1. electrotherapy, including electrostatic therapy, direct current therapy, low-frequency electrotherapy, medium-frequency electrotherapy, high-frequency electrotherapy, ultra-high-frequency electrotherapy, ultra-high-frequency electrotherapy, ion-introduction therapy, ionized air therapy, electro-hydropathic therapy, radio-frequency therapy. 2. magnetic therapy, including static magnetic fields, to prevent and cure diseases. 2. Magnetic therapy, including static magnetic field therapy, pulsed magnetic field therapy, low-frequency magnetic field therapy, medium-frequency electromagnetic therapy, high-frequency electromagnetic field therapy and so on. 3. Light therapy including infrared therapy, visible light therapy, ultraviolet radiation therapy, laser therapy, etc. In addition, there are ultrasound therapy, water therapy, and other therapies. In addition, there are ultrasonic therapy, hydrotherapy, conductive heat therapy, cryotherapy, exercise therapy, cupping therapy, electronic biofeedback therapy and so on. (B) the natural physical factors of therapy, including mineral springs, climate, air, sunlight, seawater therapy.