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Post-operative Rehabilitation
Physical therapy is a health care profession that provides treatment to individuals to develop, maintain and restore maximum movement and function throughout life. This includes providing treatment in circumstances where movement and function are threatened by aging, injury, disease or environmental factors.
Physical therapy has many specialties including cardiopulmonary, geriatrics, neurologic, orthopedic and pediatrics, to name some of the more common areas. PTs practice in many settings, such as outpatient clinics or offices, inpatient rehabilitation facilities, skilled nursing facilities, extended care facilities, private homes, education and research centers, schools, hospices, industrial workplaces or other occupational environments, fitness centers and sports training facilities.
Post-operative rehabilitation refers to the comprehensive use of a variety of rehabilitation therapies to help patients to accelerate wound healing, soft tissue recovery and overcome functional barriers thus allowing patients to return to normal daily life as soon as possible.
Rehabilitation using physical therapy usually includes electricity, magnetism, light, cold, heat and other manual therapy, strength training, gait training, and may also involve the use of occupational therapy techniques.
Post-operative treatment and rehabilitation must be evaluated by rehabilitation medicine doctors and therapists following a detailed and accurate assessment of the patient. Our hospital has several experienced rehabilitation specialists. Working together with the surgeon in charge of the surgery, we can develop the most appropriate and effective treatment for you. Our rehabilitation therapists give careful and complete guidance to the patients they can receive the most effective and most comprehensive treatment.
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