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Physical Therapy for the Reduction of Arthritis

Arthritis is a painful inflammatory condition that affects joints. The common symptoms of the patients with arthritis include pain, swelling with tenderness.

There are several other treatments for arthritis but physical therapy is highly effective allowing you to move safely. Your licensed professionals help in examining, diagnosing, and treating arthritic conditions.

How physical therapy helps arthritic patients?

Physical therapy focuses on the body part allowing you to engage in movement. The goal of physical therapy is to improve your mobility and restore affected joints. It helps in increasing the support to your joints and maintaining fitness. It allows you to indulge in performing daily activities. Physical therapy after arthritis also helps in improving posture with body mechanics helping you with daily activities and relieving pain.

Types of physical therapy for arthritis:

There are different types of North Haven physical therapy for treating arthritis. This therapy is taught by the physical therapist including the aerobic exercise with machines, weight machines, use of equipment like exercise balls, foam rollers, and resistance bands.

Along with the use of these assistive devices passive physiotherapy is also advised which includes relaxation, mobilization, massage, and electrotherapy.

Some people wonder that physical therapy might make arthritis worse but that’s not the case because physical therapy is designed to improve your daily functions. You might find it challenging to undergo exercises and might suffer from mild to moderate pain after physical therapy but this is normal and appropriate modifications can be done in different sessions of physical therapy.


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