What is Physiotherapy?

Physiotherapy is the physical treatment of the body, usually by hands-on techniques (manual therapy), to aid the return to health of a body suffering the effects of injury.

Injury can be traumatic or slow onset and doesn¹t have to be painful - though that's when most people identify their problems.

Physiotherapy helps improve the link between the brain and the body and uses motivational techniques, education and exercise to fulfill its aims.

Often referred to as an art as well as a science, physiotherapy is an inclusive treatment model that often assimilates other treatment regimes that may initially be thought to be alternative. An example of this is acupuncture which in the 1970s and 1980s was thought to be way out, but as research has proven its worth, physiotherapy has helped bring it into the western medical model.

Good physiotherapy practice is based on proven research and is continually being developed under sound scientific principles.