Potentials of a Parkinson’s Disease Physical Therapy

Two areas of physical therapy are Geriatric physical therapy and Neurological physical therapy.

 Geriatrics focus on the conditions that affect many people as they grow older – arthritis, osteoporosis, cancer, Alzheimer’s disease, hip and joint replacement, balance disorders, incontinence, Parkinson’s and more.

 Neurological PT focus on individuals who have a neurological disorder or disease – ALS, brain injury, cerebral palsy, Alzheimer’s disease, multiple sclerosis, spinal cord injury, stroke, and Parkinson’s Disease – again – a major predicament for therapists, such an immense challenge it could be separate discipline – Parkinson’s Disease Physical Therapy.

Parkinson’s Disease Physical Therapy has been nobly shouldering the development of specialized programs to help restore mobility, reduce pain, increase fitness levels. Parkinson’s Disease Physical Therapy works with patients to improve their areas of dysfunction – paralysis, vision impairment, poor balance, inability to ambulate, and loss of functional independence. 

The benefit of physical therapy and general forms of exercise in Parkinson’s disease patients has been recognized for years.

 These days, one of the most exciting areas in rehabilitation science is the continuing of the intervention of Parkinson’s Disease Physical Therapy in advocating symptomatic relief, improved function and the general benefits of improved muscle strength, aerobic fitness, and balance for their patients, plus also driving the limits in setting their exercise parameters into an intensified level to challenge impaired systems, promote recovery, and eventually to modulate the progression of the disease on the patients. 

More and more, individuals with Parkinson’s disease are expectant to benefit from treadmill training wherein their walking behavior is driven more automatically and at significantly higher intensities. Increasingly more exercise research in Parkinson’s Disease Physical Therapy is investigating the effect of challenging, highly intensive exercise on the brain and functional improvement of their patients. 

Over the last 15 years has been the recognition that the brain’s capacity for recovery from injury is far greater than previously thought. Current studies being made on the correlation of physical exercise and its effect on the brain have been a spark of hope for patients as well as practitioners of Parkinson’s Disease Physical Therapy.

 An entire team in a Parkinson’s Disease Physical Therapy ward are encouraged ever more to give their patients a longer mobility and agility in their life, packaged with a full support system to hearten the patients in the long life waiting for them. With a ‘move it or lose it motto’, Parkinson’s disease therapists may just find that winning their play may only take exercising to delay. 

Not Enough Ailments of the Knees for Knee Physical Therapy

What is the largest joint in our body? Answer: The Knee. 

The knee is the connecting point of a total of three bones in our legs: the lower end of the thigh bone or the femur, the upper end of the shinbone or the tibia, and the knee cap or the patella.

 Other parts of the knee are the cartilage or the shock absorbing cushions in between muscles, the tendons or the cords connecting muscles to bones, and the ligament or the bands connecting our bones to other bones.

 Any damage to all of these parts are accounted for by a Knee physical therapy, and just the ligament alone is so vulnerable to pulling, stretching and tearing, and with each knee having four major supporting ligaments: the anterior cruciate ligament or ACL at the center of knee, the posterior cruciate ligament or PCL also at the center, the lateral collateral ligament or LCL at the outer knee, and the medial collateral ligament or MCL at the inner knee – Oh the pains of a sprain! and much more other knee ailments.

 Knee physical therapy deals with damages to all these bones and parts altogether – so what better reason to take care of it! 

Knee physical therapy injury prevention itself does so much in providing a better health for our knees. Being one of the most easily injured joints in the human body, the knee rightly deserves its warm- ups, before it lies fateful to Cartilage Injuries, Chrondromalacia, Tendon Injuries, Iliotibial Band Syndrome, Osgood-Schlatter Disease, Osteochondritis Dissecans, Plica Syndrome, or Arthritis. 

If you are already suffering from any of these, then you should be in luck for knee physical therapy. Whether you are lying cooperatively on an injury RICE (rest, ice, compression, elevation), or just watching your way for tripping stones, whether you have knee injury or knee pain, recovering from injury, or plainly trying to avoid it – Knee physical therapy can handle it all, as long as you get it immediately. 

Yes there are other procedures to hold your back beyond a knee physical therapy, yet should you go that extra mile of surgery, arthroscopy, or knee replacement? Knee physical therapy offers easy access to prevention, emergency, or rehabilitation.

 Following simpler processes such as evaluation, therapy, education, and aftercare, knee physical therapy can literally make you good to go. Try to jump, stand, run, and pivot – jump for joy if you have a healthy knee!