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Manual Therapy normally forms the foundation for any physical therapy treatment, the primary method of treatment to help remove the movement difficulties and improve physical mobilizations of the affected. Any other modalities lie ice or water therapies, should start after that.
Manual Physical Therapy is done with hands and doesn’t employ any machines or devices for the treatment. The common manual therapy procedures are massages, stretching and strengthening exercises.
Assessment:
To avoid any untoward increase in complications of the patient’s affected bone and muscle structure, the physiotherapist first assesses the blood supply and nerve supply in the affected area and also bone and muscle assessment.
Manual Therapy for Back Pain
The various methods of manual therapy procedure help people who suffer from acute and chronic back pains to restore their normal mobility, relaxing stiff joints and muscle tension. Proper manual therapy along with practicing of guided back exercises can give good results for a long term.
It also helps in getting reliefs from hip strain, muscle strain, frozen muscle and sciatic pain.
Different Manual Therapy Treatments
- Joint Mobilization – To diagnose pulled muscles
- Soft Mobile Mobilization – To relax muscle tension
- Strain – Counter Strain – To correct Neuro-muscular reflex defects
- High Velocity – Low Amplitude Thrusting – To restore gliding motions of the muscles
- Muscle Energy Technique – to improve movement restrictions