Many physical therapy professionals believe in adapting advanced methods to deliver more efficient results. According to experts, you can find more than one right way to treat patients and bring effective results.

In recent years, practitioners have adapted various physical effective methods. These methods not only satisfy patients but also bring faster results.

Let’s explore these few different physical methods.

1. Therapeutic Exercise

Therapeutic exercise and physical therapy go hand in hand, especially to treat chronic orthopedic conditions. It basically helps heal, restore and build physical strength, stability, balance, and flexibility of muscles and joints that have been broken or torn. Particularly the main motive of physical therapy is to recommend and monitor specific exercises that help in stimulating recovery without affecting the patient.

2. Patient Education

Patients usually spend a few hours per week in therapy, but most times they deal with injuries due to poor techniques. Therefore, it is necessary for therapists to teach patients about the disorders that can arise due to poor techniques and help them change their everyday movement patterns. In patient education, experts must aware them about postural correction, fall prevention, and other instructions that are necessary.

3. Manual Therapy

Manual therapy is very useful for a variety of musculoskeletal conditions. If a patient dealing with acute injuries and chronic pain, manual therapy can be a cost-effective way to provide relief. Even help the patient in preparing for intensive treatments in the same session. Manual therapy basically involves skilled hand movements that mobilize tissues to reduce the level of pain, increase a range of motion, and decrease swelling. Practitioners mostly use manual therapies like manipulations, joint mobilizations, and stretches.  All these help a patient to prepare for exercise.

4. Soft Tissue Mobilization

Soft tissue mobilization (STM) is a type of manual therapy in which practitioner use massage and similar techniques to release adhesions, reduce wound tissue, and help muscles and tendons to relax. When it comes to athletes, Instrument-assisted STM methods are more popular and preferable, especially for stiff muscles. According to experts, it is one of the best techniques to address the muscular contraction that reduce mobility and patients find difficulty in moving.

5. Ice and Heat

Everyone knows the benefit of ice and heat for healing muscles and joints. Even today these two consider as one of the best physical therapy methods. From low back pain to arthritis they make the healing process easy and help patients to adapt exercise. In most cases, practitioners use heating technique before exercise to increase tissue mobility and reduce pain, and icing after exercise to reduce inflammation and pain.

6. Electrical Stimulation

Electrical stimulation is used to restore muscular function resulting in traumatic injuries. Similarly like ice, heat, and other physical therapy methods, it is also very useful to streamline a PT practice.

7. Light Therapy

LED and other light therapies are mostly recommended not only for reducing pain and inflammation but also because it is helpful for speeding up the healing process in connective tissue injuries. Practitioners consider it as a versatile tool that can simplify the process of healing and offer patients greater relief.

Final Words

So, these are the few best different physical therapy methods useful in chronic orthopedic conditions and connective tissue injuries. To know more about these physical therapy methods you can take a free evaluation and second opinion at XL physical therapy.