Rehabilitation

Rehabilitation is a treatment or treatments designed to facilitate the process of recovery from injury to as normal a condition as possible.

Physical therapy helps the patient restore the use of muscles, bones, and the nervous system through the use of heat, cold, massage, exercise, and other techniques. It seeks to relieve pain, improve strength and mobility, and train the patient to perform important everyday tasks. Physical therapy may be prescribed to rehabilitate a patient after arthritis, cervical and lumbar dysfunction, neurological problems, orthopaedic injuries, spinal cord injuries, stroke and other injuries. The duration of the physical therapy program varies depending on the injury being treated and the patient's response to therapy.

Exercise is the most widely used and best known type of physical therapy. Depending on the patient's condition, exercises may be performed by the patient alone or with the therapist's help, or with the therapist moving the patient's limbs.

At Ennis Physical Therapy we will work through a rehabilitation programme that most suits your needs and goals so you will return to your pre-injury state as quick and safely as possible.