Physical therapy

Physical therapy
A branch of rehabilitative health that uses specially designed exercises and equipment to help patients regain or improve their physical abilities. Physical therapists work with many types of patients, from infants born with musculoskeletal birth defects, to adults suffering from sciatica or the after- effects of injury, to elderly post-stroke patients.

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physical therapy n the treatment of disease by physical and mechanical means (as massage, regulated exercise, water, light, heat, and electricity) called also physiotherapy

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1. treatment by physical means. 2. the health profession concerned with the promotion of health, with the prevention of physical disability, with the evaluation and rehabilitation of patients disabled by pain, disease, or injury, and with treatment using physical therapeutic measures as opposed to medical, surgical, or radiologic measures.

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