Everything You Should Know About Physiotherapy, Massage Therapy And Acupuncture

1. Everything You Should Know About Physiotherapy, Massage Therapy And Acupuncture

2. Synopsis • The Fight Against Dementia – How Physiotherapy Can Help • How Physiotherapy Can Help You as You Get Older • How Massage Therapy Will Change Your Life • Massage Therapy: See how it can benefit your Mental Health • The Benefits of Acupuncture and How It Can Change Your Life

3. The Fight Against Dementia – How Physiotherapy Can Help • A neurological physiotherapist is the best match for someone diagnosed with dementia. They encourage independence through fall prevention exercises and instruct careers on home improvements that will also ensure safety. This helps with the smallest of tasks: things such as walking, getting out of bed climbing stairs. The increase of independence will improve the patient’s mood as their morale goes up as their fear of injury and embarrassment goes down. This also takes some of the pressure off of family, friends and careers. If sufferers know they are upsetting the people around them it can make them feel worse. This is why independence is so important and why it must be kept for as long as possible. • Therapists work with the patient to assess factors that restrict their physical movement and the tasks they are not able to perform daily. They will also work with the patient’s career to ensure that they will be able to keep their independence as long as physically possible. This will also boost the sufferer’s self-esteem and mood as they do not feel so helpless. It provides a better quality of life for the patient as well as everyone around them. Exercise is a huge factor in this. It benefits their mood which can mean that less medication is needed and the person with dementia can enjoy more social interaction. Together all of this has a positive impact on all symptoms of dementia or early Alzheimer’s disease.

4. How Physiotherapy Can Help You as You Get Older • It is only natural that our body starts to tire and slow down as we age. This can be anything from decreasing bone density to wasted muscle mass. This makes our muscles and bones considerably weaker and frail, limiting and restricting movement as well as lifestyle and opportunity. Older people are also at a higher risk for other diseases such as strokes and high blood pressure – however, physiotherapy can help with these problems. • Physiotherapists will stress the importance of good exercise to older people so that they may reap in the benefits. Studies undertaken by multiple health experts have shown that adults who partake in regular exercise show improved balance, motor control and even memory. Plus, all this exercise helps to dramatically reduce the risk of illness that the older generation are susceptible to. Years of evidence and research performed by multiple medical professionals proves that physiotherapy is amazingly effective at preventing and reducing joint problems, high blood pressure issues, risk of falls and even obesity. This can even have a very positive effect on mental health and emotions with most older patients reporting that they feel happier and healthier after regular exercise and therapy sessions.

5. How Massage Therapy Will Change Your Life • There are many benefits to massage therapy. It is an amazing continuous solution to lower back pain. If you suffer from scoliosis or any other spinal injury that causes unrelenting back ache, massage therapists will ease the tension or knots within the muscle. This will relax the body and almost eradicate the pain for a length of time. While the deep intensity of the massage may be painful during and briefly after, it will lessen the pain in the long term. To get rid of the pain permanently you should see a physiotherapist as well. • Another great benefit to massage therapy is that it reduces bone based diseases such as arthritis, fibromyalgia, joint pain and bursitis. 35 percent of massage therapy clients and patients go to therapists about problems such as those as massages have been found to be effective to relax muscles. It is reported that most symptoms disappear or lesson after only a month. • It helps to stabilise hormones and regulate diabetes. Massage therapy is being used to reduce the inflammatory symptoms in the muscles that present themselves with diabetes. Even other therapies like yoga and hydrotherapy can help which do not run the risk of side effects like medication does.

6. Massage Therapy: See how it can benefit your Mental Health • Therapists will apply several techniques, but the most common one the Emotional Freedom Technique (EFT). This operates under the belief that the body has energy channels: if these channels are blocked then it is believed that it can cause emotional illness within in the mind. EFT can help with fears and phobias, anxiety, depression, insomnia, trauma and even panic attacks. Using a technique called tapping, EFT eases the blocked energy channel by simulating the meridian or tension spots. (Tapping uses the fingertips to neutralise emotional energy blocks). Therapists will often reassure the patient orally to further the calming process. This combination is said to eliminate the tense energy channels and leave the patient feeling both emotionally and physically refreshed. Thousands of people globally have already benefitted from this practice. • A technique called Kinesiology, similar to EFT, is proven to help with self-confidence and self-motivation through a series of treatments such as muscle testing/monitoring. Kinesiologists will manipulate and place the patient’s limbs in a contracted position and apply pressure to find stress points on the body. They will then work the knots out to relax the patient both mentally and physically.

7. The Benefits of Acupuncture and How It Can Change Your Life • Acupuncture can help with a vast majority of health risks. One huge benefit to the practice is that it helps to relieve long term chronic pain. The needles release the tension that builds underneath the surface of the body and can help relax any strained muscles. • It also helps treat insomnia: again, acupuncture helps to relax the mind as well as the body (this is where it differs from Western medicine) and helps insomnia suffers to be calm, ergo helping them to sleep at night. • Another benefit to acupuncture is that in some cases it can also help patients to lose weight, according to sources such as the British Acupuncture Council. While someone will not lose weight with acupuncture alone, studies published in Medical Acupuncture found that ear acupuncture coupled with 15 minutes’ worth of exercise and a 2000 calorie a day diet does help to reduce weight.

8. The Benefits of Acupuncture and How It Can Change Your Life • Acupuncture aids pregnancy and postpartum health. Due to the effects of the needles, pregnant woman who undergo acupuncture have reported reduced stress levels – their hormones become less unbalanced and the pain and the anxiety during birth is less severe. • The risk of cognitive based diseases goes down. Studies have demonstrated that acupuncture stimulates neural responses in the brain (areas like the thalamus) that can be targeted by degenerative illnesses such as Parkinson’s disease. In a study conducted by the department of Neurology at the University of Maryland, it was discovered that after numerous acupuncture sessions, 85% of Parkinson’s patients’ symptoms improved, including their depression, sleeping patterns and pain. What is even more encouraging is that no adverse side effects were reported.

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